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Re: Toggle invisible files


  • Subject: Re: Toggle invisible files
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:48:30 +1100

On 10 Nov. 2016, at 10:38 pm, 2551phil <email@hidden> wrote:

As Shane’s already pointed out, that setting can also be ‘Yes’ or ‘True’, so just testing for ‘1’ won’t cut it.

FWIW, the Cocoa method for getting the boolean value of a string, which we can assume is used here, works like this:

This property is YES on encountering one of "Y", "y", "T", "t", or a digit 1-9—the method ignores any trailing characters. This property is NO if the receiver doesn’t begin with a valid decimal text representation of a number.

The property assumes a decimal representation and skips whitespace at the beginning of the string. It also skips initial whitespace characters, or optional -/+ sign followed by zeroes.

Not that you're likely to find such things here, I hope...

Anyway, here's an ASObjC alternative, which actually sets the value to <true/> or <false/>:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theDefs to current application's NSUserDefaults's alloc()'s initWithSuiteName:"com.apple.finder"
theDefs's setBool:(not (theDefs's boolForKey:"AppleShowAllFiles")) forKey:"AppleShowAllFiles"

Or as a one-liner:

tell (current application's NSUserDefaults's alloc()'s initWithSuiteName:"com.apple.finder") to setBool:(not (its boolForKey:"AppleShowAllFiles")) forKey:"AppleShowAllFiles"

And going the whole hog:

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
use scripting additions

tell (current application's NSUserDefaults's alloc()'s initWithSuiteName:"com.apple.finder") to setBool:(not (its boolForKey:"AppleShowAllFiles")) forKey:"AppleShowAllFiles"
(current application's NSRunningApplication's runningApplicationsWithBundleIdentifier:"com.apple.finder")'s firstObject()'s forceTerminate()
current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()'s launchApplication:"Finder"


-- 
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>


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