On Jan 23, 2017, at 09:38, Greg Raven <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> This is what I came up with:
Hey Greg,
That'll work fine.
Here's what I'd do:
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# USER SETTINGS:
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# Relative-Path (tilde or $HOME-based path) if possible.
set projectPath to "~/Documents/BBEdit Projects/INFO-PROJECT.bbprojectd"
set appList to items 1 thru -2 of {¬
"GitHub Desktop", ¬
"TextEdit", ¬
"Transmit", ¬
""}
-- Written this way for easy additions, removals, and sorting.
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tell application "System Events" to set projectPath to POSIX path of disk item
projectPath
repeat with theApp in appList
tell application theApp
if it is not running then run
end tell
end repeat
tell application "BBEdit"
if it is not running then -- This code works-around an “activate” bug in
some versions of macOS.
run
delay 1
end if
activate
open projectPath
end tell
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Rule-of-the-thumb – never use full paths if a relative path will work.
I generally use relative-aliases, but most people don't understand these as
well as tilde-based paths (as I've used above).
An example of same:
set projectAlias to alias ((path to documents folder as text) & "BBEdit
Projects:INFO-PROJECT.bbprojectd:")
** “Relative-Alias” is a term I coined years ago and is not official Apple
nomenclature.
Relative paths (and relative aliases) are portable. Hard-coded full-paths are
very often NOT portable.
System Events understands tilde-based paths (as seen in the script), but don't
use any kind of POSIX Path in the Finder. (While there are instances that work
there are many more that don't, so it's better to stick with HFS paths and
aliases when working in the Finder.)
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Take Care,
Chris
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