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Is it true that it is not possible to read Finder/Spotlight comments for a file in OS X using LiveCode? I could not find anything about this in the dictionary. Looks like I may have to resort to using AppleScript to read the Finder/Spotlight comments, but confirmation from a LiveCode guru would be nice! Thanks!

I went ahead and used AppleScript to get the Finder comments, it was easier than I thought. But still it would be nice to know if this can be done from LiveCode itself.

There's no built-in LiveCode command to handle that specifically, but many of these sorts of OS-specific things can be handled well through the more generic interfaces to OS extensibility provided via LiveCode's support for AppleScript, shell, etc., as you've discovered.