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

FROM : daniel
DATE : Thu Dec 09 17:43:36 2004

Also, from the scripting side, if you want to use a posix path, you can 
do so by saying:

open posix file "/Users/stephenmcintosh/Pictures/100_0590.JPG"

But as soon as you compile the script in Script Editor, it will replace 
it with an HFS-style path.

Daniel

On Dec 7, 2004, at 10:26 AM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> 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...
> -- 
> Cheers,
> M. Uli Kusterer
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