Inside Macintosh: AppleScript Language Guide / Part 3 - Appendixes

Appendix B - Scriptable Text Editor Dictionary / Scriptable Text Editor Object Class Definitions

File

An object of class File contains the data for a Scriptable Text Editor document. When a file object is opened, a corresponding document object is created.
(Only open documents are Scriptable Text Editor document objects.) When
a document object is saved, the data for the document is saved in the corresponding file object, which is represented by a Scriptable Text Editor document icon on the desktop.

PROPERTIES

Name

The name of the file.
Class: String of the form "Disk:Folder1:Folder2:...:Filename" (see "Notes")
Modifiable? No

ELEMENT CLASSES

None

COMMANDS HANDLED

Open, Print

DEFAULT VALUE CLASS RETURNED

None

EXAMPLE

tell application "Scriptable Text Editor"   print file "MyDisk:Status Reports:Status - 11/12/92"end tell

NOTES

To specify the name of a file, use a string of the form "Disk:Folder1:Folder2:
...:Filename"; for details, see "References to Files," which begins on page 143. You can also specify a string with only a filename ("Filename"). In this case, AppleScript attempts to find the file in the current directory.