Determine Finder's "Show Hard Disks"

Eelco_Houwink · December 21, 2005, 10:29am

According to the 10.4.3 Finders dictionary, one could query the Finder whether it shows its disks:

tell application "Finder"
	desktop shows hard disks
end tell

---> Finder got an error: Can't get desktop shows hard disks.

What’s wrong on my (Apple’s) part.?

Ettor · December 21, 2005, 11:18am

Is this what you’re looking for?

tell application "Finder"
	get name of every disk
end tell

Bruce_Phillips · December 21, 2005, 1:57pm

That is a property of the “Finder preferences” object.

tell application "Finder"
	desktop shows hard disks of Finder preferences
end tell

Eelco_Houwink · December 21, 2005, 10:34pm

Thanks, you got it.
Now try this non-Gui script, and observe some interesting Gui-effects.

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set desktop shows hard disks of Finder preferences to not (desktop shows hard disks of Finder preferences)
end tell

Explanation.?

Bruce_Phillips · December 21, 2005, 10:53pm

Er, what kind of explaination are you looking for?