Re: Applescript Q: file specifications

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Applescript Q: file specifications
Date	2016-03-28 20:03 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-03-28, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-03-28 11:47, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> set quotedString to the quoted form of filePath
>
> set quotedfile to the quoted form of aPhoto's original path
> write "original: " & quotedfile & return to outfile

That's not what I wrote above. Notably, "aPhoto's original path" isn't
necessarily a string, depending on the context.

> It doesn't like the "quoted form" in first line above.
>
> iPhoto got an error: Can’t make quoted form of original path of photo id
> 4.294973456E+9 into type reference.

No, what it doesn't like is the fact that "aPhoto's original path" is
resolving into an object reference: original path of photo id
 22 > 4.294973456E+9. Coerce it to a string before you send it to "the
quoted form of" to fix the problem:

set quotedfile to the quoted form of (aPhoto's original path as text)

You may get away with:

set quotedfile to the quoted form of (aPhoto's original path)

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Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 01:54 -0400
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-27 21:36 +1300
    Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 15:10 -0400
      Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-27 19:25 +0000
      Re: Applescript Q: file specifications dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-28 12:35 +1300
        Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 02:55 -0400
          Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 15:47 +0000
            Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 15:20 -0400
              Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 20:03 +0000
                Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 17:08 -0400
                Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 21:15 +0000
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-03-27 10:53 +0200
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-27 16:53 +0000

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