Re: AppleScript to open a file using the NSObject method - (BOOL)application: openFile:

FROM : M. Uli Kusterer
DATE : Tue Dec 07 19:26:32 2004

At 20:37 Uhr +1100 07.12.2004, Stephen J McIntosh wrote:
>I have the following script which is sent to my test application
>tell application "ImageBuddy"
>    open file "/Users/stephenmcintosh/Pictures/100_0590.JPG"
>end tell


  That's wrong. AppleScript takes old-style HFS paths. Since
HFS-to-Unix-path conversion happens by swapping colons and slashes
(mostly), this explains why you seem to be getting an HFS path.
You're not, you're just passing in a file name containing slashes,
instead of a pathname...
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M. Uli Kusterer
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