Applescript: get path

[Jonathan Lewis]

Dear Bruce,

Thanks for your reply. The Convert to Word Doc script uses the 
following:

property SaveLocation : (choose folder with prompt "Where would you 
like your converted Word documents to be saved?")

which isn't useful for me as I want the results of the script to be 
automatically saved in the same folder as the frontmost OO document. I 
could navigate to the folder every time, but that rather defeats the 
point of writing a script.

By the way, was I the only one to find that the OO2Word script didn't 
work as advertised in the Word Export Tutorial, i.e. saving a .doc file 
on the desktop? The only  file that appeared anywhere on my machine was 
an .xml file in the trash. On the point of giving up, I opened the 
Convert to Word Doc script in the Script Editor and re-compiled it, at 
which point the above line sprang into action. Since then I get an 
.html file (though not a .doc file) in the specified folder that Word 
reads very happily.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Lewis



On 2003.3.21, at 10:57 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>
> On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 04:19  AM, Jonathan Lewis wrote:
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Any help much appreciated.
>
> I'm not sure, but I'd recommend taking a look at the OO2Word package 
> on the "extras" page for OO.
>
> Bruce
>
>