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Re: Getting the Folder name when using drag-&-drop Scripts
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Re: Getting the Folder name when using drag-&-drop Scripts


  • Subject: Re: Getting the Folder name when using drag-&-drop Scripts
  • From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:06:29 -0800

On Mar 10, 2004, at 2:53 PM, Easthope, John R wrote:

These two examples do not catch the actual Folder dropped but rather a file or the container of a file.

* File
copy (choose file) as string to thePath
copy text (((length of thePath) + 2) - ((offset of ":" in (reverse of characters of thePath) as string))) thru (length of thePath) of thePath to filename

*File Container
copy (choose file) as string to thePath
copy text 1 thru ((length of thePath) - ((offset of ":" in (reverse of characters of thePath) as string)) + 1) of thePath to filePath


(The second "copy" command of these examples should be entered as one line.)

I am sure the solution is a variation of one of these.

The default handler for a script is the Run handler. When an item is dropped on an applet, it invokes the Open handler in that script, with a direct parameter of the objects that were dropped.

on open theFileList
repeat with theFile in theFileList
doMyThing(theFile)
end repeat
end open

on run
doMyThing(choose file)
end run

to doMyThing(f)
copy f as string to thePath
copy text (((length of thePath) + 2) - ((offset of ":" in (reverse of characters of thePath) as string))) thru (length of thePath) of thePath to filename
end doMyThing

Chris
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