On Nov 7, 2008, at 6:52 PM, emailboy wrote:
> I have a very simple script that is trying to open a file in BBEdit
> read only, but when run, it tells "Finder" instead of "BBEdit" to open
> the file:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set alias2 to file "blah-blah-blah"
> end tell
Calling the variable "alias2" doesn't change its type. If you look at
the contents of alias2 at this point in your script, it is actually a
specifier for a Finder object.
Later, `open alias` will create an open event targeted at the
specifier, which is a Finder object.
(Yes, it is surprising, but that's just the way AppleScript works.
This is out of BBEdit's hands.)
So if you instead write
tell application "Finder"
set alias2 to file "blah-blah-blah" as alias
end tell
the script will do what you want.
Jim
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