Applescript in Mac OS 10.1.5

[bpazolli]

When I press the record button and then do something in the finder it doesn’t produce anything. Is the Finder unscriptable? or am I doing something wrong? I tried it on my brothers machine that is running 10.4 and it worked great. Any information is welcomed.

 

[fryke]

I'm not sure, but it _could_ be the Finder is not scriptable in 10.1.x ... You could maybe open the Finder - like any application - in Script Editor to see whether it's scriptable.

 

[bpazolli]

Actually I am pretty sure now that it is scriptable a script like this runs as expected:

to run
tell application "Finder"
activate
set visible of every process whose name is not "finder" to false
end tell
end run

It only seems to be a problem if you want to capture actions using the record button.

 

[Mikuro]

IIRC, the Finder wasn't recordable in OS X until Jaguar, or possibly even Panther. I don't think there's any way around it, unfortunately. Of course, manually-written scripts still work fine.

 

[bpazolli]

Thank you very much. I guess I am forced to type in scripts manually