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Folder Actions and BBEdit problem this time without HTML


  • Subject: Folder Actions and BBEdit problem this time without HTML
  • From: Dan Doughtie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:31:50 -0500

This time with HTML mail off and hopefully without smart quotes. This should
be easier to read Sorry about that I didn't know that it was a problem.



I've got a Folder action on a G5 on 10.3.2 that is set to trigger and open a
text file when it arrives, then do some massive copy replacements with grep
searches and when finishes writes the file out to a server that inserts it
into an editorial system.

If one file lands at a time it works great. When you throw 100 in at one
time it works great. But if a second file arrives after it starts processing
another file then it stops and tries to do a -save- before it has a chance
to finish its search and replacing. Any files arriving behind it starts
backing up.

I suspect that it is being confused about --text of window 1--

But I haven't had any luck in using something other than window 1. Is there
a way to set a variable to the window of item x to avoid using Window 1?


The script goes

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these items

--some global fields etc.

repeat with x from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item x of these_items
set the item_info to info for this_item --(so I can figure out the name of
the file)
tell app 3BBEdit2
open this_item

set MPS to text of window 1

--start all of my searches then save the clean file to another folder.
end tell
end repeat


How to I tell it to. Since the script it running live it9s hard for me to
test but would -- set MPS to text of window 1 of item x --work?



--

Dan Doughtie
Business Analyst
Morris Technology Services
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