Do you think we're a bit over the top with ways to open documents? ______ David McCabe davidmccabe@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/davidmccabe/ Jesus loves you! >> For those of you who are familliar with the underlying machinery of >> AppleEvents, there are two ways to launch an application, with an "open >> document" event or an "open application" event. >> >> Doing the following is the equivalent of sending an "open application" >> event, followed by an "open document" event. >> >> tell application "Foo" to open document "Bar" >> >> To simply have an "open document" event sent, one can do the following. >> >> tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar" >> >> Now in my particular script, I need to use the second form, without using >> the Finder. Is this possible? > > There's also this: > > tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar" using application "Foo" > > or variant > > tell application "Finder" to open alias "Bar" using application file id "Fooo" > >> Can we send an "open document" event directly >> to the app without using the tell application "Foo" terminology? > > The above is the only way I know to tell the app without telling the app. :-) > > > -W ------------------------------
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