Applescript new file

Question

Hi everybody
I am quite new to Mac and new to programming.
I am learning Applescript. I am trying to write a simple script that I can add to the title bar of Finder.
I want the script to show a choose file box where I input the name of a file to create and choose the destination to save it to.
Then click ok and it saves it where I want and as i want including Tags
I can do the first part, show the choose file name with properties. the problem I have is how to get Applescript to then save it where I want.
The best I can do so far is to have the script saved as what I want but only in the default location which is set to desktop. How do I get Applescript to get the location of where I chose and put it into a variable so that I can then tell Applescript to make new file at the variable with the name entered in the choose file name box
Any help would be grateful
Thank you

Answer 1

Once you have the result from choose file name you can use open for access to create the file, followed by write to write data to it, and close access to clean up when you're done:
-- prompt the user for the file name:
set fn to choose file name
-- open (and create) the file:
set f to open for access fn with write permission
-- write some data to it:
write "blah" to f
-- and close it when you're done:
close access f
So I think 'open for access' is the part you were missing. It creates the file if it doesn't already exist, otherwise it allows you to overwrite/append data to an existing file.