simple applescript?

[Ben Rubinstein]

Chipp wrote:

> Hi all. Need a bit of help here...why doesn't this work?
> 
> on mouseUp
>  answer file ""
>  if it is empty then exit to top
>  put it into pPDFpath
>  replace "/" with ":" in pPDFpath
>  if char 1 of pPDFpath is ":" then delete char 1 of pPDFpath
>  put "tell application " &quote& "Finder" & quote & cr into tScript
>  put "set the file type of " &quote& pPDFpath &quote& \
>        " to " &quote& "PDF " &quote& cr after tScript
>  put "end tell" after tScript
>  do tScript as Applescript
>  put the result into sError
> end mouseUp


Hi Chip,

I think you need "file" before the path, ie

  put "set the file type of file " &quote& pPDFpath &quote& \
        " to " &quote& "PDF " &quote& cr after tScript

HTH,
 
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