new to apple script a simple question

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onepiece OP

Created Jul ’15

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how can i create a text file at desktop using apple script?

my code

tell application "TextEdit"

make new document at desktop

end tell

error "“TextEdit”遇到一个错误：不能将“desktop”转换为“location reference”类型。" number -1700 from desktop to location reference

what's location reference?

how can i fix this problem?

thank you

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’15

In this case the location reference tells TextEdit where to put the doc relative to other open docs. To create a new document and save it to a specific location, you can do this.

set destFile to (POSIX path of (path to desktop) & "Test Format.rtf") as POSIX file 
tell application "TextEdit"
    set newDoc to make new document
    save newDoc in destFile
end tell

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