There is no TextEdit.app???

[Bob Sneidar]

Craig, the system is not case sensitive. Should the Symlink produce true for there is a folder? If so then I suppose it is a bug. But it's a minor one and it can be worked around. It makes sense for Apple to put such apps in the system, as deleting or worse yet modifying them would take more than admin credentials. 

Bob S


> On Mar 22, 2022, at 06:01 , Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob.
> 
> There is no way that the uppercase/lowercase difference in a character in a literal can have that sort of effect. Are you saying you can duplicate this???
> 
> Craig
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2022, at 7:01 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Damn, I took a long time formatting that message so the source-code would be legible. Well, sorry, don’t know if it was my mail app or the mailing-list software, but something borked it.
>> 
>>> On 22 Mar 2022, at 10:36, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bob,
>>> 
>>> Another way to check if an application is installed on a mac is by using AppleScript. Here are some functions that work together to check if TextEdit is installed.
>>> 
>>> function q txt
>>> return quote & txt & quote
>>> end q
>>> 
>>> function isApplicationInstalledByBundleID pID
>>> put "try" & cr into tScript
>>> put "tell application " & q("Finder") & " to get application file id " & q(pID) & cr after tScript
>>> put "return true" & cr after tScript
>>> put "on error" & cr after tScript
>>> put "return false" & cr after tScript
>>> put "end try" & cr after tScript
>>> 
>>> do tScript as “applescript"
>>> 
>>> if the result is "{true}” then
>>>  return true
>>> else
>>>  return false
>>> end if
>>> end isApplicationInstalledByBundleID
>>> 
>>> function isTextEditInstalled
>>> return isApplicationInstalledByBundleID("com.apple.TextEdit")
>>> end isTextEditInstalled
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 21 Mar 2022, at 22:58, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have the following in a script, and it does not seem to be able to find the TextEdit.app application on a Mac! 
>>>> 
>>>> put "/Applications/TextEdit.app" into tTextEditorPath
>>>> if there is a folder tTextEditorPath  then 
>>>>      put true into tValidPath
>>>> end if
>>>> 
>>>> if tValidPath is false then 
>>>>   put empty into tTextEditorPath
>>>> end if
>>>> 
>>>> That cannot be right. 
>>>> 
>>>> MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 LC 9.6.7 lc2. 
>>>> 
>>>> Bob S
>>>> 
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