Re: relative / absolute paths in AS
Re: relative / absolute paths in AS
- Subject: Re: relative / absolute paths in AS
- From: kitshy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 00:00:37 +0100
Hi Timothy,
many thanks for your reply. Maybe I described my problem not properly.
I want to use the placement script as a design option. Firstly I destroy
the picture by moving every icon to another place by myself. So the
user sees only strange icons. But then he starts the AS and the picture
appears in a typically IconMacher animation. So with the Clean Up script I
can do animations on the desktop. With this experiment I want to show that
you don't need software like Director or Flash to do animated pictures but
just the finder. So I need really need to know if it is possible to
do relative paths with AS.
But many thanks again, Jan Jansen
on 06.01.2002 21:42 Uhr, Hellum Timothy at email@hidden wrote:
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Jan,
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I use this little app as well.
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After it assembles the icons into the folder window (tucked up into the
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upper left corner), I disregard the placement script and simply select all
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the icons together and drag them as one to where I want the "image" to sit
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in the folder window. Once the CD is burned, the icons appear where they
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were dragged without anyone after the fact having to resort to the placement
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script. Tried on three different machines with various OSs and AS versions.
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Works every time.
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HTH,
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Timothy
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> From: kitshy
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> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2002 2:49 PM
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> To: email@hidden
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> Subject: relative / absolute paths in AS
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> Dear AppleScript users,
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> I am a German design student who is writing his final paper.
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> I use AppleScript to present my work on CD-ROM.
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> But I have some problems with it. So I would be very glad if
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> somebody could help me. I have following question:
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> I use the software "IconMacher 1.5.4" to generate pictures with
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> icons. after that I use the "clean up"-AppleScript to put the icons
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> in the right order again if I mess up the order by myself.
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> this is the "clean up" Script:
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> ---
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> property myPath : " HOMEBASE :Desktop Folder:test:"
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> tell application "Finder"
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> activate
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> set i to 32 --incrementer
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> set s to 10 --left edge of first icon
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> set t to 30 --top edge of first icon
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> set zoomed of container window of folder myPath to true
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> select folder myPath
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> open selection
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> select file (myPath & " ")
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> set position of selection to {s + i * 0, t + i * 0}
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> select file (myPath & ")
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> set position of selection to {s + i * 1, t + i * 0}
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> .
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> .
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> .
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> set zoomed of container window of folder myPath to true
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> end tell
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> ---
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> The problem is that this script is only running on my computer
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> because of the path: myPath : " HOMEBASE :Desktop Folder:test:"
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> On an other the computer the script does not work if it has a
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> differnt name for the harddisk.
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> Is it possible in AppleScript not to give a full path name? Like
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> HTML-Links
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> where you can use a relative path? For example .../desktop/:test:?
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> So it runs on every machine?
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> Many thanks for your help, Jan Jansen
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