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Re: Problem with POSIX paths?


  • Subject: Re: Problem with POSIX paths?
  • From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:30:30 +0200


Le 15 juin 2016 à 15:58, Dave <email@hidden> a écrit :

Hi All,

Given the following Handlers:

on getPOSIXPathWithMacPath:(theMacPath)
set myFullNamePOSIX to the POSIX path of theMacPath
return myFullNamePOSIX
end getPOSIXPathWithMacPath:

on getMacPathWithPOSIXPath:(thePOSIXPath as text)
set myMacPath to thePOSIXPath as POSIX file
return myMacPath
end getMacPathWithPOSIXPath:

on getActiveDocumentID()
tell application id "com.microsoft.Word"
set myDocument to the active document
set myDocumentFullName to the full name of myDocument
if myDocumentFullName does not contain ":" then return myDocumentFullName

set myDocumentID to my getPOSIXPathWithMacPath:(myDocumentFullName)
end tell

return myDocumentID as text
end getActiveDocumentID

on getWordDocumentWithDocumentID:(theDocumentID as text)
if theDocumentID = missing value then return missing value

if theDocumentID does not contain "/" then
tell application id "com.microsoft.Word"
set myDocumentList to (every document whose name is theDocumentID)
if  the count of myDocumentList = 0 then
return missing value
end if

set myDocument to item 1 of myDocumentList
return myDocument
end tell
end if

set myDocumentID to my getMacPathWithPOSIXPath:(theDocumentID)
if myDocumentID = missing value then return missing value

tell application id "com.microsoft.Word"
set myDocumentList to (every document whose full name is myDocumentID)

if  the count of myDocumentList = 0 then
return missing value
end if

set myDocument to item 1 of myDocumentList
end tell

return myDocument
end getWordDocumentWithDocumentID:

The above seems to work ok with MS Office 2011, but I’m getting reports of problems in 2016.  Can anyone see why the might cause a problem?

This is in an XCode project and is being called from Objective-C using AS-ObjC.

Thanks in advance.

All the Best
Dave



Hello Dave

As some of you know I don't use M…soft products so I can't be sure of my thought.

What is sure is that the instruction :
set posixFile to posixPath as POSIX file

doesn't return a pathname but a «class furl» object.
So I wonder if your problem is that maybe Word can't deal with this kind of object.
On my HD I have access to a dictionary from Word whose version is #14.2.4 which say that full name is a text object.

If it's always true I would not be surprised that the instruction :
set myDocumentList to (every document whose full name is myDocumentID)
fails because it compare a text object (full name) to a «class furl» one (myDocumentID).



Yvan KOENIG running El Capitan 10.11.5 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 15 juin 2016 17:30:25



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