Applescript: get path

[Wayne Brissette]

Jonathan Lewis jonathan_lewis at mac.com on Saturday, March 22, 2003 stated:


>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.

I think there's a problem with the Path command in OO. To illustrate this
you use the same code in TextEdit and OO since the path keyword is the
same in both dictionaries.


tell application "TextEdit"
	  set theDoc to front document
	  set MySelection to name of theDoc
	  copy (path of theDoc) to MyPath
end tell

tell application "Finder"
   display dialog MyPath
end tell


tell application "OmniOutliner"
	set theDoc to front document
	set MySelection to name of theDoc
	copy (path of theDoc) to MyPath
end tell

tell application "Finder"
   display dialog MyPath
end tell


What you'll find is that the TextEdit version diplays the proper path,
whereas the OO version fails with an error 10. :-(

Anybody else seen this?

Wayne


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