I had forgotten all about a little problem with copying folders with
a bg picture ... the bg file for the copy is the same as the
original. This means that you can't use "Set Background Pict" to get
a (passive) splash screen because you will always be copying and
trashing the application bundle (as in upload, download).
The solution is to create an "active" splash screen. First create
aliases 'pictFile' and 'folderRef' to a picture file and empty folder
in your application bundles Resources folder. Then, every time you
want to open the folder for the splash screen, you set its bg picture
first.
Something like this ...
tell application "Finder"
...
set background picture of icon view options of (window of folderRef)
to pictFile
open window of folderRef
...
end tell
The window does not have to be open to set the bg picture.
On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Brett Conlon wrote:
This is proving harder than originally thought. While using Luther's
droplet script to create the background image in a folder is working
nicely, the moment I update the saved bundle script (containing the
splash
screen folder) or move the script to another location the folder
defaults
back to no picture and different size/location.
