Re: Help with Find and Do with Multiple Applications
Re: Help with Find and Do with Multiple Applications
- Subject: Re: Help with Find and Do with Multiple Applications
- From: Kellen Ruyle via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:22:40 -0500
Hi L. Lee,
Yes, I am using Mojave(10.14). Great, I will try to add the Script Editor to
the Accessibility and Full Disk Access areas of the Security & Privacy prefpane
and see if that does the trick. Thanks so much for your help.
Kel
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 12, 2019, at 9:01 AM, AT&T <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> When I see “handler” in errors these days, I first wonder about those
> inconvenient sandbox rules in Mojave. Are you using Mojave (10.14) or a beta
> for Catalina? If running in Script editor you might need to add the Script
> Editor app to the Accessibility and Full Disk Access areas of the Security &
> Privacy prefpane. If you create AppleScript applications, you have to add
> each.
>
> L. Lee
>
>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 10:56 PM, Kellen Ruyle via AppleScript-Users
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi! I am new to AppleScript and have been going through AppleScript 1-2-3 by
>> Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman. It’s great and I am learning a lot.
>>
>> I am working through a script but it seems to give me an error “Finder got
>> an error; AppleEvent handler failed.”number-10000
>>
>> I am trying to generate a list of the names of the image files displayed in
>> the frontmost Finder window, sorted by their file size, and then creating a
>> new document in TextEdit containing the list of names. I can attach
>> screenshot if need be. I have copied and pasted the code below. Any help
>> would be great thanks!
>>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> -- generate a list of file references sorted by size
>> set these_items to sort (get every document file ¬
>> of the front Finder window) by physical size
>> -- generate a list of names
>> set these_names to {}
>> repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
>> set the end of these_names to ¬
>> the name of (item i of these_items)
>> end repeat
>> end tell
>> -- convert the list of names to a paragraph-delimited text block
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
>> set the item_list to these_names as string
>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
>> -- make a new document with the text
>> tell application "TextEdit"
>> activate
>> make new document
>> set text of document 1 to the item_list
>> end tell
>>
>> I greatly appreciate it!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kel
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
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