Re: Beginners drop folder
Re: Beginners drop folder
- Subject: Re: Beginners drop folder
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:24:04 +0100
At 1:44 PM +0100 27/2/02, John McMillan wrote:
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Can someone give me advice, direction or recommend a good beginners book to
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help with the following:-
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I want to create a droplet or drop folder (if that9s the correct description
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for it) onto which operators can drop a folder which according to the
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current day (Monday Tuesday etc) will place a copy of this folder into an
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appropriately named folder (Monday Tues etc) on an external HD. This all
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being carried out on Mac's running various OS9.
The droplet seems to me the way to go - you would name it something like
"Store it". The user would drop one file / several files / a folder of
files / folders of folders of ... of files onto it (you have to decide
about that).
An applet is like a normal application, when you launch it it runs, except
that when it runs it actually runs a script that you can edit with Script
Editor.
A droplet is the same, except that in addition when you drop a file on its
icon it will execute its "open" handler - a handler that you will provide
with Script Editor.
A sketch of your droplet could be:
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on StoreOne(theFilePath)
set theDay to weekday of (current date) as text
set theFolderPath to "External HD:" & theDay & ":"
tell application "Finder" -- handling files is Finder's job
move (alias theFilePath) to (alias theFolderPath)
end tell
end StoreOne
on open theListOfFiles -- is that always a list, even when you drop one file?
repeat with theFile in theListOfFiles
-- many lines here to retrieve individual files
-- out of theListOfFiles, considering the list
-- can contain folders, aliases, volumes ...
StoreOne(theFilePath)
end repeat
end open
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Emmanuel
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