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On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Mark Lively wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
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>> I have a script that does some text processing, saves a file, then opens the file in Tex-Edit Plus. Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard that no longer works. Tex-Edit Plus just opens an empty window.
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>> So I turned on Record, used Tex-Edit to open a file. Got the same thing I already have in my script:
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>> tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
>> activate
>> open file "Bill'sHD:Users:billsteele:Desktop:foo.txt"
>> end tell
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>> But when I run the recorded script, it opens the same empty untitled window. (Note: Tex-Edit preferences are set to *not* open an empty window on activation.)
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>> This was in the new "Applescript Editor." I still have the old Script Editor, but it doesn't work in that either, and Script Editor tends to quit now and then.
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>> Tried the same procedure on another machine running Leopard, and it works properly.
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>> Suggestions?
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> Have you tried with posix paths or aliases?
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> -Mark
Aliases yes, posix paths no. We'll try that tomorrow morning. But either way, what bugs me is that it won't play back what it recorded.
Bill Steele
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