reveal file/folder in Finder

[Sarah]

This won't quite work because the Unix path doesn't include the disk 
name, and revMacFromUnixPath() just changes the slashes to colons but 
doesn't add the disk name. Here is a function that I (with help from 
this list), came up with to convert Unix/OS X file paths to Applescript 
paths:

function filePathToAppleScript pFile
   put "set tFilePath to *file*" & cr & "set tAS to POSIX file 
tFilePath" \
       & cr & "return tAS" & cr into tScript
   replace "*file*" with quote & pFile & quote in tScript
   do tScript as Applescript
   put the result into tASfile
   delete word 1 of tASfile    -- file
   delete char 1 of tASfile    -- quote
   delete char -1 of tASfile   -- quote

   return tASfile
end filePathToAppleScript

Then use the file path returned by this function as the parameter for 
Ken's AppleScript below.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 03:19  am, Ken Ray wrote:

> You almost stated it yourself:
>
> tell application "Finder"
>   reveal <pathToFileOrFolder>
> end tell
>
> Since AppleScript wants colon-delimited paths, you can call on a useful
> set of handlers from Rev that's in the Common Library:
>
>   put revMacFromUnixPath(<unixPath>) into myPath
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>>
>> Does anyone have the recipe for 'revealing' a folder in the Finder
>> (OSX) from a Rev script? This used to be a snap in Apple Events. I
>> can't find the syntax anywhere....
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> stephen barncard _______________________________________________