On 3/3/05 7:31 AM, "has" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> The type 'alias' for the Save command in the Standard Suite is a long, >> longstanding bug in AppleScript. > > Replacing (as of 10.3) a previous long, longstanding implementation > bug where it was specified as a POSIX path string. :p
Bo, that one was quite short-standing (OS 10.1 and 10.2) and only for TextEdit. Only TextEdit specified a POSIX path string for 'save' - it has now been changed to standard AppleScript colon-delimited paths to correspond with all other apps. > > I take it 'alias' is just a documentation error then, and the > application will also accept a file spec/file url type identifying an > existing/not-yet-created file. Yes. > > >> Fortunately there is an equally >> longstanding coercion, performs by AppleScript itself, that allows you to >> use a string or Unicode text there > > Presumably there's a POSIX path string-to-file object coercion > introduced in 10.3 to maintain compatibility scripts written for > Cocoa apps in 10.2, where 'save...in' took a POSIX path string > instead of a file object. No, that's broken - it was only TextEdit in OS 10.1 and 10.2 that ever did the POSIX paths. ( 'save document 1 in "/Volumes/PB G5 HD Panther/Users/berkowit/Desktop/TestDoc.rtf"' saves the document in a file of that exact entire name - complete with forward slashes - on my root startup disk!!) Only colon-delimited paths work correctly now, not POSIX paths. I can't imagine that there are too many broken scripts since TextEdit's scriptability is so limited in the first place that there's not much you can do with it. -- Paul Berkowitz _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
