obtaining application paths

[Jim Sims]

Thanks Terry, and thanks Bernd!

Bernd, that one works pretty slick! If I use the word Applications and  
also do one for Utilities it would cover the majority of apps. Might  
be a winner for my intended use.

Nice.

sims

On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:20 PM, BNig wrote:

> not very nice but works for mail.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> 	set x to path to applications folder
> 	set y to every application file in x whose name contains "mail"
> 	if number of items of y = 1 then
> 		-- just variations of the format	
> 		set z to y as alias
> 		set z1 to z as text
> 		set z2 to POSIX path of z
> 	else
> 		-- tell me to scratch my head	
> 	end if
> end tell
>
> if you want to do it for apps that are in subfolders of the  
> application
> folder like iWork etc. you have to adapt it further. If you dont  
> know where
> to look for an app this script is out of luck.
> regards
> Bernd



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