re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-27 Thread has
Jason Coco wrote: I did a test with this... it seems that the code to resolve the alias in AppleScript doesn't like non-latin encoded pathnames. I think you're right - from dim and distant memory I seem to recall that AppleScript's 'value as alias' coercion often doesn't work with

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 26 Aug 08, at 00:39, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: I want to open some file: source = tell application SomeApp... You're making things harder than they need to be. [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:@/path/to/file withApplication:@SomeApp]; As to AppleScript's Unicode support, I

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:04, Andrew Farmer wrote: On 26 Aug 08, at 00:39, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: I want to open some file: source = tell application SomeApp... You're making things harder than they need to be. [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:@/path/to/file

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Jason Coco
On Aug 26, 2008, at 04:19 , Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:04, Andrew Farmer wrote: On 26 Aug 08, at 00:39, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: I want to open some file: source = tell application SomeApp... You're making things harder than they need to be. [[NSWorkspace

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 26 Aug 2008, at 20:58, Jason Coco wrote: On Aug 26, 2008, at 04:19 , Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:04, Andrew Farmer wrote: On 26 Aug 08, at 00:39, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: I want to open some file: source = tell application SomeApp... You're making things

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Charles Srstka
On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: Could you tell me the exact appscript code? When I try in Script Editor: tell application Finder set macpath to POSIX file /Volumes/เม่น/Users as Unicode text open information window of macpath activate end tell and

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread has
Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: When I try in Script Editor: set macpath to POSIX file /Volumes/เม่น/Users as Unicode text and do Compile, then this gets transformed into: set macpath to file ‘ßÀÏ:Volumes:‡¡Ëπ:Users as Unicode text Sounds like you're on 10.4 or earlier. AppleScript only

Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines

2008-08-26 Thread Gerriet M. Denkmann
On 27 Aug 2008, at 02:09, has wrote: Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: When I try in Script Editor: set macpath to POSIX file /Volumes/เม่น/Users as Unicode text and do Compile, then this gets transformed into: set macpath to file ‘ßÀÏ:Volumes:‡¡Ëπ:Users as Unicode text Sounds like