Re: Simple Pict conversion help (More)
Re: Simple Pict conversion help (More)
- Subject: Re: Simple Pict conversion help (More)
- From: Dave Groover <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:29:39 -0500
property dialog_timeout : 10 -- set the amount of time before dialogs
auto-answer.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_item
try
tell application "Finder"
set the folder_name to the name of this_folder
open this_folder
reveal the added_item
end tell
end try
end adding folder items to
tell application "MacLinkPlus Deluxe"
activate
(translate added_item to PICT) format
end tell
Sorry for my bang and chop methods of script compiling but, this is
as far as I have gotten with this so far. It isn't doing more than
opening and revealing what was dropped on the folder. Eventually I
will want to move the converted files and also rename them. But,
small steps first. All I did was to gut out the notification and
choice options from a standard watched folder script. Then I read the
dictionary in Maclink and hopefully chose the correct syntax for
converting the file to a pict format. I have not tested my logic yet.
I can't get this iteration of the script to give any MacLink Plus
results. The MacLink is in classic and on another disk. The correct
path to the MacLink program is: Jupiter Drive:Applications (Mac OS
9):Utility Programs:MacLinkPlus Deluxe 12:MacLinkPlus Deluxe
Again, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave
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Sorry if this is elementary, but I need to figure out how to do a
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simple file conversion via AppleScript. I booted back into 9 as X
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has no way to record finder actions. I was hoping to record the
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procedure once and learn from the process.
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I am not sure I even need an application for this as it should be
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something the system is already capable of doing. I was trying, in
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9, to record the script editor while dropping a file on the file
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converter utility, with no luck. I also tried recording the opening
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of Graphic Converter and changing the file types. No luck there
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either. I keep getting a system error number 17??.
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The whole point of this is to create a drop folder action where I
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can drag gifs or JPEGS off the Internet and convert them to a simple
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pict file. No tweaking, just convert. I would like it to be set up
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as a batch process but really one at a time would do nicely. I
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suppose it really wouldn't matter what format it was in to start, so
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long as converting the file type to pict would work.
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I have searched my disks for an example of this. I also searched my
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old AppleScript list archive files. I would have thought I had or
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had seen an example of this sort of thing before but, I could not
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find even one. I know this is a fairly common use of AS, to batch
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convert files for Quark, Photoshop and web folks.
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Is there a snippet of code, or an example, I can get my hands on to
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tell me how to do this? Thanks much.
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Dave
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