Damn, I took a long time formatting that message so the source-code would be
legible. Well, sorry, don’t know if it was my mail app or the mailing-list
software, but something borked it.
> On 22 Mar 2022, at 10:36, Andre Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Another way to check if an application is installed on a mac is by using
> AppleScript. Here are some functions that work together to check if TextEdit
> is installed.
>
> function q txt
> return quote & txt & quote
> end q
>
> function isApplicationInstalledByBundleID pID
> put "try" & cr into tScript
> put "tell application " & q("Finder") & " to get application file id " &
> q(pID) & cr after tScript
> put "return true" & cr after tScript
> put "on error" & cr after tScript
> put "return false" & cr after tScript
> put "end try" & cr after tScript
>
> do tScript as “applescript"
>
> if the result is "{true}” then
> return true
> else
> return false
> end if
> end isApplicationInstalledByBundleID
>
> function isTextEditInstalled
> return isApplicationInstalledByBundleID("com.apple.TextEdit")
> end isTextEditInstalled
>
>
>
>> On 21 Mar 2022, at 22:58, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have the following in a script, and it does not seem to be able to find
>> the TextEdit.app application on a Mac!
>>
>> put "/Applications/TextEdit.app" into tTextEditorPath
>> if there is a folder tTextEditorPath then
>> put true into tValidPath
>> end if
>>
>> if tValidPath is false then
>> put empty into tTextEditorPath
>> end if
>>
>> That cannot be right.
>>
>> MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 LC 9.6.7 lc2.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
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