It did for me. I am running 10.6 I opened up the app's plist, added the key then saved the plist. It then ran a script that said tell application id "com.AccuWeather.Foo" to activate and it did. On Nov 9, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Paul Skinner wrote: > Mark, > > That doesn't seem to have any effect as far as "tell application > ID" is concerned. I can't get it to alter the returned code. > > Does this wrk on your machine? > > Thanks > Paul > > On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Mark Lively wrote: > >> If you were to right click on an application and show package >> contents, there would be a file in there called "Info.plist" >> On of the keys in the file is "Bundle identifier" which contains >> "com.Apple.TextEdit" for instance. >> >> You can add one to an application if it doesn't have one. >> >> >> On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Paul Skinner wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> get id of application "TextEdit" >>> -->"com.apple.TextEdit" >>> >>> get id of application "applescriptApplication.app" >>> -->"aplt" >>> >>> What is it that causes an applescript application to create a >>> plist and, I assume, thusly be locatable with the... >>> >>> tell application id "com.apple.TextEdit" >>> make new document >>> end tell >>> >>> ...construct? >>> >>> thanks, >>> Paul >>> >