At 11:40 AM -0800 1/24/02, Scott Rossi wrote: >On a related note, I come from a print background where we created page layouts by >having type set for us on photo paper and pasting it down onto boards with rubber >cement. Making corrections to anything required cutting the paper with an Exacto(TM) >blade and pasting new type into position. Try this sometime with 6 point legal type >and make it straight. You kids today with your fancy shmancy page layout programs >and printers don't know how easy you have it...
I yield -- that sounds harder than writing a compiler, even on an abacus... >At any rate, it seems that launching any old document is also possible without having >to reference the document's creator application: > > answer file "Locate file:" > put it into tPath > delete char 1 of tPath > replace "/" with ":" in tPath > put "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr &\ > "open file" && quote & tPath & quote & cr &\ > "end tell" into s > do s as AppleScript > >This should open the target document as if it was doubleclicked. > >Shouldn't this be more difficult? It _is_ slightly more difficult, since you need to watch out for the "/" character in the legitimate path, which will have been translated to a ":" You could either escape the ":" which always gives me a headache, or do a character-by-character switch. I generally go the headache route, but I have no aspirin handy at the moment... regards, gc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
