{"id":12692,"date":"2015-10-28T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2015-10-28T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:46:04","slug":"when-open-does-not-return-an-object-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/when-open-does-not-return-an-object-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"When Open Does Not Return an Object Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=946\">Mark Alldritt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=946\">\n<p>The code below shows one way of working around the problem of the Open command not returning a reference to the newly opened document. I use the Preview application in my code, but this technique works equally well with other application which fail to return a document reference from their Open commands. <em>This technique fails if the file is already open.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the main frustrations with AppleScript is that sometimes things like this that should be easy end up requiring a big chunk of copy and pasted code.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Alldritt: The code below shows one way of working around the problem of the Open command not returning a reference to the newly opened document. I use the Preview application in my code, but this technique works equally well with other application which fail to return a document reference from their Open commands. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,131,69,30,1199,71],"class_list":["post-12692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-applescript","tag-bug","tag-cocoa","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12693,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions\/12693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}