[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript path issue

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Mar 5 22:01:21 CET 2009


Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:

> I wouldn't be surprised if the root of the problem is with
> PowerPoint. It started its life as an OS9 application, so if it still
> thinks it  lives in an OS9 world with FSSpecs and colon-separated
> pathnames, it  could be trying to do the conversion to posix paths
> itself.

No, it continues to deal with HFS paths.  What I'm getting from it
is "janssen:Documents" as the directory for the presentation.

Which implies a disk called "janssen", and a top-level directory called
"Documents", which is pretty much what's there.

And osascript processes it correctly, so...

Bill


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