Alias' on OS X

[Dennis Brown]

Thanks for the prompts,

I answered my own question:
Try the alias first, and if the result is not empty, go for the file  
directly instead
My script works now.

Dennis

On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

> 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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