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C H A P T E R 2

Finder Objects

Object Class Definitions

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DEFAULT VALUE CLASS RETURNED

A reference or (if you use the plural form processes) a list of references

of the form

application "

ProcessName"

where ProcessName is the name of a process as it appears in the

Applications menu.

EXAMPLE

In the first version of the Finder scripting software, this script returns a list of

all processes except the Finder itself:

tell application "Finder"

every process

end tell

In later versions, the list of processes returned includes the Finder. To

exclude the Finder, use the statement every process whose file
type is not "FNDR"

.

Sharable Container

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An object of class Sharable Container is a container that can be shared.

PROPERTIES

A sharable container has all the properties defined for object class Container

on page 43: Completely Expanded, Container Window, Entire Contents,

Expandable, Expanded, Previous List View, Selection, and View.
Like any other container, a sharable container also has all the properties

defined for object class Item on page 73: Bounds, Comment, Container, Content

Space, Creation Date, Disk, Folder, Icon, ID, Information Window, Kind,

Label Index, Modification Date, Name, Physical Size, Position, Selected, Size,

and Window.