Stephen B. wrote: > > I'd be happy with an Applescript solution or something using the > > Shell. faster would be better. thanks for any help. stephen. > > thanks guys. sqb
TMHO, such threads should end -- if available -- with a full working solution. Perhaps somebody can use this, for example me, in half a year :-) ======= HowTo Switch the "locked" flag (= the check in Finder's "Get info"-dialog box) of a Mac OSX file. Yo have to be superuser or the owner of this file for that. [1] using applescript (see note at end of this post) on mouseUp answer file "File to unlock" -- obtain the path/to/file if it is not empty then replace slash with colon in it delete char 1 of it --> delete leading colon <-- BN do switchLocked(it) as applescript end if end mouseUp function switchLocked ff return "" & \ "tell application " "e& "Finder" "e &CR& \ " set p to alias " "e& ff "e &CR& \ " set locked of p to not (locked of p)" &CR& \ "end tell" end switchLocked [2] using shell on mouseUp answer file "File to unlock" -- obtain the path/to/file if it is not empty then put quote&it"e into f1 put word 5 of shell ("ls -lO " & f1) into myFlag --> myFlag is "-" if not locked and "uchg" if locked if myFlag is "uchg" then put "nouchg" into myFlag --> lock else put "uchg" into myFlag --> unlock put shell ("chflags" && myFlag && f1) into nirwana -- put shell ("ls -lO " & f1) --> check if it's done end if end mouseUp ======= Note Bernd N. and I had a dialog about the "execution error" of the original script [1] above and he found the culprit: If you give an alias that starts with a colon (or a POSIX path that starts with a slash) then the Applescript Script Editor puts "startup disk" in front of this and it's OK). We have to delete the leading colon or put the diskName in front of the path). [-hh] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode