> > I've got a CD-ROM that has a Revolution app running on it, > and I want > > that Revolution app to create an alias, pointint to itself to the > > user's desktop. I know that I can use the defaultFolder to find the > > path to the app, and I know I can use "the > specialFolderPath" to find > > the path to the desktop. Can anyone tell me how I could pass these > > parameters to Applescript to perform the alias creation? > Will I run > > into issues with the difference in how Applescript vs. Rev > handles the > > "/Volumes/" string, or how the CD-ROM path is formed? > > Is there a reason you can't use the create alias command in Rev?
Yes, unfortunately there's a bug in Bugzilla (#1059) about the inability to make aliases to apps in OS X because they are "folders", and 'create alias' only works with files.
I do not know about OS X, but on Windows it works (sorry for the text size, copied from MC):
put specialfolderpath("desktop") into skrbord
set itemdel to "/"
if the platform = "win32" then put item 1 of skrbord into hd--Creates a folder "/DysEngMP/" on C :
put hd & "/DysEngMP/" into mappe if there is no folder mappe then create folder mappe
---Creates alias on desktop: put skrbord &"/DysEngMP.lnk" into snarvei
create alias(snarvei) to file mappe --"file" is used even for a folder
Regards Signe Marie Sanne
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