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Re: First time script ... help for debugging
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Re: First time script ... help for debugging


  • Subject: Re: First time script ... help for debugging
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:34:58 +0100

At 2:59 PM +0100 17/01/04, SVEN AERTS wrote:
>What's wrong with this ?

*You* are supposed to tell us first what is wrong, for instance "when I run the script from Script Editor no file is renamed, yet I don't get an error message", "... I get the following error message: blah", " ... only part of the files are renamed" etc.

Maybe your script does not compile: then the Script Editor will highlight some section of the code, tell us where.

>Display dialog
>"Welcome, this script replaces the last 4 characters of a filename with .jpg
>if the filename has no .jpg at the end. What folder are the files in ?"
>choose folder with promt

There is a typo here.

>Select Folder

This should be quoted: "Select Folder"

>if name ends with ".jpg"
>then goto next name
>else
>replace name -4 to -1 by ".jpg"

You don't look familiar with a "repeat" structure, and you don't look familiar with the AppleScript's operators on strings, that you need.

Maybe it would help you to check a few sections in the official AppleScript Language Guide:

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/interapplicationcomm/AppleScript/AppleScriptLangGuide/index.html>

(A French version is also available)

Emmanuel
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