URGENT! File will open in the new QTX no matter what done!

Question

Hi!
The script at the bottom of the post worked perfectly on 10.5, but once I installed 10.6 it does not work anymore.
*On 10.5 it was like this:* The script consatntly checks a downloads folder. When a new file is downloaded, the script checks whether it is an .avi file and if it is true, then it checks whether the file name includes phrase "house". If the file is .avi and name contains house, then the file is moved (copied) to an external drive. Then the new file (locted on the external drive) is opened with QuickTime 7, a movie reference file is created and saved on desktop. Then the reference file is added to iTunes.
*On 10.6 it is like this:* The issue is that the newly created (copied) file on the external drive is opened not by QuickTime 7, but by the new QuickTimeX, so eventually it turns out that the file is opened in QTX and QT7 is just launched - the script fails. It is strange because specifically application id "com.apple.quicktimeplayer" (which is QT7) is asked to open the file, but it still opens in QTX.
To resolve the issue, I made a separate script to just check whether the QT7 would simply open the downloaded file (not the one that is moved to an external drive) using the same
+tell application id "com.apple.quicktimeplayer"+
+activate_
+close every document+
+open thisItem+
*and it actually did!*
So I guess that the issue lies somewhere on the fact that the file is opened from a different location or something like that (QT7 can open thisItem, but cannot open theNewFile). To sum up, if the file is not moved - everything works, once it is moved - it does not.
To conclude, the issue MUST be in this line:
*set theNewFile to (move thisItem to (POSIX file house_path))*
PLEASE, PLEASE help! Thanks in advance!
property folder_path : "/Users/reinis/Transmission/"
property family_path : "/Volumes/ALL/Family Guy/Season 8"
property family_season : "8"
on run
tell application "Finder"
set action_folder to ((POSIX file folder_path) as alias)
set droppedItems to entire contents of folder action_folder
end tell
repeat with thisItem in droppedItems
tell application "Finder"
copy name of thisItem as string to FileName
if FileName ends with ".avi" then
if FileName contains "House" then
set theNewFile to (move thisItem to (POSIX file house_path))
try
set my_location to (path to desktop) as text
tell application "iTunes"
launch
make new user playlist with properties {name:"Via"}
end tell
tell application id "com.apple.quicktimeplayer"
activate
close every document
*open theNewFile*
set movie_name to name of document 1
set save_location to my_location & movie_name & ".mov"
save document 1 in save_location
close document 1
end tell
set movie_reference to save_location
tell application "iTunes"
activate
add movie_reference to user playlist "Via" of source "Library"
delay 3
set pl to user playlist "Via" of source "Library"
set ofi to fixed indexing
set fixed indexing to true
repeat with t from 1 to (count of file tracks of pl)
set tr to file track t of pl
try
if tr's played count is 0 then
set tr's video kind to TV show
set tr's season number to house_season
set tr's show to "House"
end if
end try
end repeat
set fixed indexing to ofi
end tell
tell application "Finder"
delete file movie_reference
end tell
tell application id "com.apple.quicktimeplayer"
quit
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
activate
try
delete user playlist "Via" of source "Library"
end try
end tell
tell application "Finder"
empty the trash
delay 2
beep
end tell
end try

Answer 1

Hello
It seems you're caught in a typical pitfall.
It's easy to evade.
Replace the line :
set theNewFile to (move thisItem to (POSIX file house_path))
with this line :
set theNewFile to (move thisItem to (POSIX file house_path)) as alias
Brief explanation.
The original theNewFile holds an object specifier of Finder object and therefore 'open theNewFile' is handled by Finder whether or not it's in a tell block targeted to another application. It means 'open theNewFile' behaves the same as double clicking theNewFile in Finder, which will let QTX Player open it under OSX 10.6, I guess.
Meanwhile the modified theNewFile holds an alias object, which is an AppleScript's own object and not owned by any application, and therefore 'open theNewFile' is to be handled by the application to which the immediate context belongs, i.e., to which the immediate tell block is targeted.
Hope this may help,
H