opening file in Photoshop in ObjC

[ralph.lindenfeld]

Folks-

The following code works fine in AS but doesn’t fly in ObjC:

set partialPath to choose folder with prompt “Pick a folder:”

(this is part of a repeat loop, which is where it gets "afile)
tell application “Finder”
set theName to name of afile
end tell
set theFile to partialPath & theName

tell application “Adobe Photoshop CS5”
open file theFile as PDF with options {class:PDF open options, mode:RGB, use antialias:true, page:aPage, suppress warnings:true}
end tell

the only thing I modified for ObjC is how I set the name:

set theName to afile’s lastPathComponent()

the concatenated name looks fine when logged in ObjC:

Macintosh HD:Users:a351958:Desktop:source:296402.pdf

but I get the error:

2012-03-01 18:29:36.865 Web_Thumbnail[56208:903] *** -[AppDelegate chooseFolder:]: Adobe Photoshop CS5 got an error: Can’t make some data into the expected type. (error -1700)

But, when I paste in the literal path in ObjC it works:

open file “Macintosh HD:Users:a351958:Desktop:source:296402.pdf” as PDF with options {class:PDF open options, mode:RGB, use antialias:true, page:aPage, suppress warnings:true}

Looks like a coercion problem to me. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

-RL

[Shane_Stanley]

set partialPath to choose folder with prompt “Pick a folder:”

set theFile to partialPath & theName

You need to coerce partialPath to a string somewhere between these two statements.

[ralph.lindenfeld]

That worked- Thanks Shane!