Launching a local file in the default browser

[Ken Ray]

OK, Richard, I got it... you need to shell() to the "cp" to copy the
file to a temporary filename; doing so will strip the type/creator and
then you can launch it with "open" via appleScript (after converting the
POSIX path to a normal mac path, of course):

on launchit pPath
  put pPath into tDestPath
  set the itemDel to "/"
  put "temp.html" into last item of tDestPath
  get shell("cp" && pPath && tDestPath)
  put "tell application" && q("Finder") into s
  put cr & "set f to" && q(tDestPath) && " as POSIX file" after s
  put cr & "set p to f as text" after s
  put cr & "open file p" & cr & "end tell" after s
  do s as AppleScript
end launchIt

function q pWhat
  return quote & pWhat & quote
end q


This should work...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:12 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Launching a local file in the default browser
> 
> 
> Ken Ray wrote:
> 
> > Richard, you posted this to the MC list last year under the header :
> > 
> > Found it:  You have to explicitely tell the Finder, like this:
> > 
> > put "tell application "&quote&"Finder"&quote&cr&"open "&quote& \ 
> > tFilePath &quote&cr&"end tell" into s do s as AppleScript
> > 
> > See: 
> > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-January/000569.html
> > 
> > But I just checked it and it doesn't work for me.
> 
> Same here:  it launches the local file, but in the 
> application that matches the file's creator code and not the 
> default browser. :(
> 
> > I'll keep looking...
> 
> Thanks.  Hopefully one of us will solve this once and for all...
> 
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