Re: Droplet for CD
Re: Droplet for CD
- Subject: Re: Droplet for CD
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:21:09 -0700
On Wednesday, September 19, 2001, at 01:46 PM, Sprague, Graham wrote:
I am setting up a really simple script to catalog a CD to a Portfolio
Catalog. I plan to use the catalog to keep track of items stored on the
CDs.
This will make it easier to search for items across multiple CDs.
My reason for limiting the droplet to CDs is that I don't want people
adding
the folder the used to prepare the files for burning, single files, or
shared disks, etc... I only want them to add CDs. For the forseeable
future
we will be using CD-R as our archive media. Until DVD is the standard
then
I'll make the change to DVD. So for now it's just CDs.
If this is a thing to catalog CDs, why not generalize it to removable
media? That way, people could use DVD-Rs, Zip disks, flash cards,
whatever. Check that the item is a local ejectable disk -- the Finder
can tell you those things trivially.
By the way, if you don't mind futzing around with ResEdit a bit, you can
alter the droplet so it will only accept disks. (I.e., the Finder will
only let you drop disks on it.) Open the droplet in ResEdit, open the
"BNDL" resource, and delete the "****" and "fold" items.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering