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Economy-x-Talk - Sample Scripts

Create Alias to Application

Create an aliuas to an application on Mac OS X.
  





 --CREATE AN ALIAS FOR THE APPLICATION ON THE DESKTOP
    repeat for each line thisLine in tFiles
        put specialFolderPath("desktop") into tAliasLoc
        put "/" & thisLine after tAliasLoc

        --IF THE ALIAS ALREADY EXISTS THEN DELETE IT FIRST
        --AS THE OLD ONE WILL BREAK THE INSTALLER
        if there is a folder tAliasLoc then
            revDeleteFolder tAliasLoc
        end if

        put specialFolderPath("desktop") into tAliasLoc
        put "/" & quote & thisLine & quote after tAliasLoc
        put tDestLoc into tSourceOfAlias
        put "/" & quote & thisLine & ".app" & quote after tSourceOfAlias
        put "ln -s" && tSourceOfAlias && tAliasLoc into tCmd
        put shell (tCmd)
    end repeat





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