Thanks for the clarification, Tim. I need to work on integrating my
AppleScripting with FileMaker a little better. ;-)
Andre
On May 4, 2011, at 18:20, Tim Mansour wrote:
On 5 May 2011 07:33, André Boey <[email protected]> wrote:
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
tell database "Database Name"
tell table "Table Name"
set filePath to cell "global Field Name"
end tell
end tell
end tell
That's not necessary André.
For starters, the script is being run within the FileMaker context so
the first "tell" statement is redundant.
Also, it's fair to assume that Deb's FileMaker script will be run from
a context where the field "Photo
Catalog::File Path" evaluates correctly so we can use that field
without having to first set a global. (Plus, you forgot to mention
that the script would first need to set the value of the global
field.)
If the path is not a Mac-style
path but a Unix-style one, you'll have to use Substitute to
replace the
slashes with colons.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it's not necessarily as simple as that.
Translating from a Unix- to a Mac-style file path is best done by
using:
POSIX file filepath
For example:
set foo to "/Users/tim/Desktop/image.jpg"
POSIX file foo
--> file "Macintosh HD:Users:tim:Desktop:image.jpg"
HTH.
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