Bob.
There is no way that the uppercase/lowercase difference in a character in a
literal can have that sort of effect. Are you saying you can duplicate this???
Craig
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 7:01 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> 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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