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  • Subject: Re: problem with POSIX path of …
  • From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:23:14 +0200

> Le 13 sept. 2016 à 21:45, Axel Luttgens <email@hidden> a écrit :
>
>
>> Le 13 sept. 2016 à 16:33, Yvan KOENIG a écrit :
>>
>> […]
>>
>> I don't understand why the good old « tell me » tip doesn't allow POSIX path to behave correctly in a tell application "System Events" block
>>
>> […]
>
> Hello Yvan,
>
> At the basis, you are interested into something like this:
>
> 	set tempFolder to (path to documents folder) as text
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		POSIX path of tempFolder
> 	end tell
>
> For System Events (SE), "POSIX path" is a property (with internal code 'posx') of a disk item.
> Unlike some other application, SE doesn’t try to auta-magically coerce arbitrary strings, in this case into disk items.
> As a result, nobody (neither SE nor AppleScript) knows what to do with that 'posx' property in the context of a string.
>
> You then consider:
>
> 	set tempFolder to (path to documents folder) as text
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		tell me to POSIX path of tempFolder
> 	end tell
>
> With  a "tell me" statement, one doesn’t change the terminology: SE’s dictionary is still in use, and one is still querying for that 'posx' property.
>
> So, let’s cheat by using the terminology of an application known not to have the slightest idea about a "POSIX path":
>
> 	set tempFolder to (path to documents folder) as text
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		using terms from application "TextEdit"
> 			POSIX path of tempFolder
> 		end using terms from
> 	end tell
>
> and one now gets the same behavior as with that less convoluted one:
>
> 	set tempFolder to (path to documents folder) as text
> 	POSIX path of tempFolder
>
> (in both cases, the internal code for POSIX path is now 'psxp')
>
> HTH,
> Axel

Thanks Axel

This is a perfect answer : explanation and workaround in a single message.
You made the point.


Yvan KOENIG running El Capitan 10.11.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 13 septembre 2016 22:23:09





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