Icon in Standalone

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Thu Jun 19 23:23:58 EDT 2008


Hey, Jacque,
Typo perhaps?

answer file "Choose a stanadlone application:"

Joe Wilkins
On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Randy Hengst wrote:
>> Jacque, I don't know how to use the terminal, but I had tried both  
>> of your other suggestions.
>
> Here's a script that doesn't need Terminal, you can run it in Rev. I  
> mistakenly said it uses a shell command, but it uses AppleScript.  
> Put this script into a button:
>
> on touchAppFile
>  answer file "Choose a stanadlone application:"
>  if it = "" then exit touchAppFile
>  put it into tAppName
>  if char -4 to -1 of tAppName <> ".app" then
>    beep
>    answer error "Not an application file."
>    exit touchAppFile
>  end if
>  put revMacFromUnixPath(tAppName) into tFilePath
>  replace quote with "\"&quote in tFilePath -- escape
>  put the cTouchScript of this cd into tScript
>  replace "*FPATH*" with tFilePath in tScript
>  do tScript as AppleScript
>  get the result
>  if it contains "error" then answer it
> end touchAppFile
>
> Then create a custom card property, call it "cTouchScript", and set  
> the property contents to this:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> update file "*FPATH*"
> end tell
>
>
> When you click the button, it will ask you for an app and then  
> update the Finder.
>
> Scott Morrow's suggestion about checking the pList is a good one  
> too, I hadn't thought of that. If the pList doesn't list your custom  
> icons, then the Finder won't know about them.
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com







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