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I am looking to tell application "xyz", but by specifying a full path to the application. This is because there may be various versions of the app on the system in different places, but with the same name. If this possible?
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Description. An alias type is a representation of a disk, folder, or volume. An alias is a form of referring to an object such as a file (as in the syntax example), which is very similar to the “alias files” that you can create in the Finder.
In the Script Editor app on your Mac, click the Run button in the toolbar, or press Command-R, to execute the commands in your script.
What Is AppleScript? AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple. It allows users to directly control scriptable Macintosh applications, as well as parts of macOS itself.
Have you tried it? It works with either a posix style path or mac style path, so what's the issue? It couldn't be easier.
set posixCalculatorPath to "/Applications/Calculator.app"
set macCalculatorPath to (path to applications folder as text) & "Calculator.app"
tell application posixCalculatorPath to activate
delay 2
tell application "Calculator" to quit
delay 2
tell application macCalculatorPath to activate
One thing that you might not know how to do is to find the path to the application you want to target. I have created a tool found here which, if you feed it the path to a file then it will return the paths to all of the applications that could open that file. So that result would tell you if there is multiple applications with the same name and then you could choose which one to use.
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launch application ":Applications:TextEdit.app"
tell application ":Applications:TextEdit.app" to launch
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