Trouble saving as Droplet in OSX
Trouble saving as Droplet in OSX
- Subject: Trouble saving as Droplet in OSX
- From: dan jewett <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:51:04 -0500
Greetings all,
I'm a first time poster and a beginner at Applescript. I've got a
script which was written by someone else for autoposting with
"Thoth" to Usenet. I re-typed the script (for practice and
familiarity) and it compiles but I can't seem to save it as a
droplet. The original script is functional as a droplet. My
re-typed version follows below. Any help or advice would be
appreciated.
on open fileList
set newsGroup to "alt.binaries.test"
set totalItems to (count of fileList)
display dialog "Auto-posting " & (count of fileList) & "files
to " & newsGroup & "Text for subject line?" default answer ""
set subjectLine to (text returned of result)
set currentCount to 0
repeat with this_item in fileList
tell application "Thoth"
activate
newmessage
set currentCount to currentCount + 1
setmessagepart newsGroup messagePart "Newsgroups"
setmessagepart (subjectLine & "- " &
currentCount & "of" & totalItems) messagePart "Subject"
setmessagepersonality personalityName "bebop"
setmessagepart "something witty" messagePart ""
setmessageattachment newsEncode uuEncode
-- for Macintosh newsgroups, should be:
-- setmessageattachment newsEncode binEncode
--Tell Thoth how big the parts should be. 55K
is about 8000 lines
setmessageattachment newsSize 360
--set file last or it might hang
setmessageattachment attachedFile this_item
sendmessage
end tell
end repeat
end open