Alias' on OS X

[Dennis Brown]

Ken,Jeanne,Jacqueline,

Yes I am on a Mac.
Yes Ken's script works on my alias', because the answer file resolves  
the alias.
Yes aliasReference() returns the right file.

No, my script does not work:

on mouseUp --this script works for the file alias
     put aliasReference(gDBTVDataFolder & "20040114" & ".csv") into  
field "File path"
     put URL ("file:" & field "File path") into field "file text" -- 
show for debug
end mouseUp

on mouseUp --this script works for the file, but the alias returns  
empty data
     put gDBTVDataFolder & "20040114" & ".csv" into field "File path"
     put URL ("file:" & field "File path") into field "file text" -- 
show for debug
end mouseUp

So instead of resolving the alias, it is using the alias as the file.

I want to have a mix of alias' and files in a list without caring  
which is which.  How would I do that since the filenames are the same?

Dennis

On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 8/16/05 9:36 PM, "Dennis Brown" <see3d at writeme.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a very large list of large files (thousands) that I use as a
>> database in my program.  I also use a subset of them for faster
>> testing.  At first I was duplicating the subset in another folder,
>> but I thought it would be nice to just have an alias of the files I
>> wanted to use in that folder.  The problem is that my program is
>> happy with the file names except it sees them as empty.  Shouldn't
>> they provide the get File: URL command with the data from the
>> original file?
>>
>
> Yes, and in fact that seems to still be the case. I created a text  
> file and
> an alias to the text file. I then ran this simple script:
>
> on mouseUp
>   answer file "Pick the alias"
>   if it <> "" then
>     put url("file:" & it) into fld 1
>   end if
> end mouseUp
>
> and it successfully put the contents of the original file into  
> field 1.
>
> Are you finding something else?
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>
>
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