How open Folders and other do other things but didn't know how to

[Mike Matthews]

Have an early lunch, job well done!  I got the OSX window opening working from Keith, very nice man, an doing to EurOmnis 2013.  Now this bit as well.

Just the Properties Win Window to do.

Mike




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On 16 Jul 2013, at 12:06, Kelly Burgess <kellyb at montana.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
>> open a folder window in both OSX and Windows?
> 
> To open a window and select a file in it, put the path to the file in datapath and:
> 
> If tIsMacX
>  Begin text block
>    Text: Tell application "Finder" (Carriage return)
>    Text: reveal file("[datapath]") (Carriage return)
>    Text: activate (Carriage return)
>    Text: End tell (Carriage return)
>  End text block
>  Get text block script
>  Do $runapplescript(script,result) Returns err
> ;  
> Else If tIsWin32
>  If isunicode()
>    Register DLL ('User32.dll','FindWindowW','JJC') 
>    Call DLL ('User32.dll','FindWindowW','#NULL#','MyAppWindowTitle') Returns hwnd
>    Register DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteW','JJCCCCJ') Returns err
>    Call DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteW',hwnd,'open','explorer.exe',con('/select, "',datapath,'"'),'',1) Returns err
>  Else
>    Register DLL ('User32.dll','FindWindowA','JJC') 
>    Call DLL ('User32.dll','FindWindowA','#NULL#','MyAppWindowTitle') Returns hwnd
>    Register DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteA','JJCCCCJ') Returns err
>    Call DLL ('Shell32.dll','ShellExecuteA',hwnd,'open','explorer.exe',con('/select, "',datapath,'"'),'',1) Returns err
>  End If
> End If
> 
> 
>> Anyone know about the Properties / GetInfo windows?
> 
> Found this Applescript, untested -
> 
>  set macpath to POSIX file "/Users/rross/test.applescript"  as alias
>  tell application "Finder" to open information window of macpath
> 
> For Windows, the above would do everything up to the point where you'd want to invoke the File menu's Properties command.  I don't know how to tell a window to perform a menu command.
> 
> Kelly
> 
> 
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