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Re: Old script now fails


  • Subject: Re: Old script now fails
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:57:09 -0600
  • Z-usanet-msgid: XID829wcuL6k9632X34

Thanks Yvan,

Surprising no one else noticed that.

Several of my old scripts have that issue.

> On Mar 21, 2018, at 5:19 AM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I tested only the run entry point.
> Enabling « tell application "Finder" » was required.
>
> Your instruction
>       open {chosenItem}
> pass a list of lists to the handler so, when this one extract theItem it get
> the list when it is supposed to get an alias.
> Edit the code using parenthesis.
>
> open (chosenItem)
>
>
> Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France)
> mercredi 21 mars 2018 12:15:57
>
>
>> Le 19 mars 2018 à 15:55, Robert Poland <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have this script from 2005 that no longer runs…
>>
>> Any what’s changed?
>>
>> property searchStrings : {"t"}
>> property replaceStrings : {""}
>>
>> on run
>>      set chosenItem to choose file with multiple selections allowed
>>      open {chosenItem}
>>      return
>> end run
>>
>> on open (droppedItemList)
>>      tell application "Finder"
>>
>>      repeat with theItem in droppedItemList
>>              # repeat from 1 to (count of  theItem in droppedItemList)
>>              log theItem
>>              set fileName to the name of theItem
>>
>>              set new_item_name to changeLiteralStrings(fileName,
>> searchStrings, replaceStrings) of me
>>
>>              if (get name of theItem) ≠ new_item_name then
>>                      set name of theItem to new_item_name
>>              end if
>>
>>      end repeat
>>
>>      end tell
>> end open
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --» HANDLERS
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> on changeLiteralStrings(_text, searchStrings, replaceStrings)
>>      change searchStrings into replaceStrings in _text
>> end changeLiteralStrings
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Poland
>> iMac, Late 2013, 14,2
>>  3.2 GHz Intel Core I5, 27”
>>  16 GB Ram, 1TB Fusion HD
>>  OS X 10.13.3 (High Sierra)
>
>
>
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