Hi Andre

This may have been covered or irrelevant but you can control the default app for file types within the finder.
Do Get info on a file. The option tis there for Open With and can be set for all documents of this type.
My be then FM will use Photoshop.

Kind Regards
Eric

On 05/05/2011, at 9:50 AM, André Boey wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification, Tim. I need to work on integrating my AppleScripting with FileMaker a little better.  ;-)
> 
> Andre
> 
> On May 4, 2011, at 18:20, Tim Mansour wrote:
> 
>> On 5 May 2011 07:33, André Boey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
>>>       tell database "Database Name"
>>>               tell table "Table Name"
>>>                       set filePath to cell "global Field Name"
>>>               end tell
>>>       end tell
>>> end tell
>> 
>> That's not necessary André.
>> 
>> For starters, the script is being run within the FileMaker context so
>> the first "tell" statement is redundant.
>> 
>> Also, it's fair to assume that Deb's FileMaker script will be run from
>> a context where the field "Photo
>> Catalog::File Path" evaluates correctly so we can use that field
>> without having to first set a global. (Plus, you forgot to mention
>> that the script would first need to set the value of the global
>> field.)
>> 
>>> If the path is not a Mac-style
>>> path but a Unix-style one, you'll have to use Substitute to replace the
>>> slashes with colons.
>> 
>> Sorry to be pedantic, but it's not necessarily as simple as that.
>> Translating from a Unix- to a Mac-style file path is best done by
>> using:
>> 
>> POSIX file filepath
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> set foo to "/Users/tim/Desktop/image.jpg"
>> POSIX file foo
>> --> file "Macintosh HD:Users:tim:Desktop:image.jpg"
>> 
>> HTH.
>> 
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