Problems in OS X

[Monika Herzig]

Thanks Matt

Your fix didn't quite work but put me on the right path.

Monika

>> 
>> This may be well off topic.
>> 
>> I am finally trying to move all my stuff from OS 9 to OS 10.2.1. Somehow I
>> am having trouble getting things in Frontier 8.05 to work correctly.
>> 
>> When running Publish Page or Publish Table the files are written to my local
>> directory but, unlike before Internet Explorer is not automatically opened
>> to show a preview. It's a little detail that's important for the workflow. I
>> tried changing the path in the System.Verbs.Apps section. When I used the
>> correct path I got an Mac System error -600. That's the same error I get
>> when I try to publish to my webprovider through Interarchy.
> 
> As far as I can tell this is because the priority of getting what I
> consider the basic system-scripting aspect of Frontier to work on Mac OS X
> (launch stuff, handle long filenames, etc. etc.) doesn't seem to be high
> just now.
> 
> Try this. Change sys.bringAppToFront to read as follows:
> 
> on bringAppToFront (appname)
> workspace.bringapptofront (string(appname))
> // kernel (sys.bringapptofront) // busted
> 
> Here is your workspace.bringapptofront - NB it is an applescript!:
> 
> on bringAppToFront(whatID)
> tell application "System Events"
> set the frontmost of every process whose creator type is whatID to true
> end tell
> end bringAppToFront
> 
> See if that helps - m.