How to create a document?
How to create a document?
- Subject: How to create a document?
- From: Mitchell L Model <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:39:56 -0400
| I provoked a discussion in Vol 13, issues 236-250 by asking "How to create a document?" (with specific reference to scripting TextEdit). I believe the conclusive entry in this challenge was in issue 242:
set testFile to "This is a test.txt"
set thePath to ((path to desktop as text) & testFile) as «class furl»
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
make new document
tell document 1
close it saving yes saving in thePath
end tell
open thePath
# Now we may work as we want upon the document
end tell
Yvan KOENIG running El Capitan 10.11.5 in French (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 juin 2016 20:39:06
I used this approach for a while, but ran into related problems. In a rare out-of-the box thought I realized that we were all too fixated on AppleScript, unsurprisingly given that this is the AppleScript list. The following script performs flawlessly and works whether the file exists or not:
to createNewDocument(theApplication, thePath) do shell script "touch " & quoted form of the POSIX path of thePath tell application theApplication to open thePath end createNewDocument
TaDa! |
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