Bill Janssen wrote:
I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript:
on run
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
set this_item to path of active presentation
end tell
set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item
display dialog of unix_item
end run
which yields "/tilde/janssen/Documents", an NFS-mounted location.
Is that correct? Shouldn't the volume appear under /Volumes? Is the
volume identified by this path mounted at the time you run this code?
If not, try it and see what happens.
I'm not an expert on Unix mounting points, but my impression is that
that is where they normally go. I've also noticed that HFS<->POSIX
path conversions only produce a path beginning with /Volumes when the
volume is mounted. I suspect the result given when the volume isn't
mounted is wrong/undefined, but as I say I'm no expert in this area.
I've got this:
from appscript import *
from mactypes import *
print File.makewithhfspath(app("Microsoft
PowerPoint").active_presentation.path()).path
However, in this case, I get "/janssen/Documents", which is wrong.
Appscript uses CFURL functions to convert POSIX to HFS paths and vice-
versa. (I'd have thought AS would use the same functions, but maybe
not.) The relevant code is in the ae.c file for your reference. If you
find a problem in the way that HFS<->POSIX paths are converted, I'd
suggest writing up a test case in C to confirm the same behaviour
there, then submit a bug report to Apple on it as its their APIs that
are responsible for it.
HTH
has
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