[OS X TeX] Getting Finder to Refresh

[Claus Gerhardt]

There is in Applescript a Finder command
update: Update the display of the specified object(s) to match their  
on-disk representation
	update  reference  -- the item to update
  Lokk in the Finder's AS dictionnary, which should be what you look for.

Claus

On Jan 21, 2005, at 17:19, Herb Schulz wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I'm putting together a Dropscript based on pgn2ltx for converting .pgn  
> Chess
> Game files into skak (actually skaknew) based .tex files. The shell  
> script
> works fine but the Dropscript (you can drop a group of files on it and  
> it
> will convert all the .pgn's to .tex's) but the Finder takes it bloody  
> time
> to refresh and show the new .tex files in the folder. Is there a shell
> command I can add to the script to tell the Finder to refresh window
> contents?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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