Language Guide

CHAPTER 5

Objects and References

134 Reference Forms

Name 5

The Name reference form speciﬁes an object by name. Most applications

determine this by examining an object’s Name property.

SYNTAX

className [ named ] nameString

where

className is the class identiﬁer for the speciﬁed object.

nameString is the value of the object’s Name property (see “Notes”).

EXAMPLES

document "Report"

window named "Help"

application "Macintosh HD:Applications:Scriptable Text Editor"

NOTES

In some applications, it is possible to have multiple objects of the same class

in the same container with the same name. In such cases, it is up to the

application to determine which object is speciﬁed by a Name reference.

For applications and ﬁles, the nameString parameter can be a string of the form

"Disk:Folder1:Folder2:...FileName"; for details, see “References to Files and

Applications,” which begins on page 143.

For more information about Name properties of speciﬁc types of objects, see

the deﬁnitions for object classes provided by the AppleScript documentation or

the application’s documentation.