Re: How do I get a script to ask me the number of times to repeat?
Re: How do I get a script to ask me the number of times to repeat?
- Subject: Re: How do I get a script to ask me the number of times to repeat?
- From: Simon Kidd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:17:33 -0500
At 1.24pm -0600 24/2/05, Christopher Stone wrote:
At 13:44 -0500 02/24/2005, Simon Kidd wrought:
many times it is to repeat and in what phase it is to select items.
So my question is what is the command I need to script to have the
script ask me these questions?
*I* sure wouldn't use GUI scripting to do this.
set srcFl to alias "Lao-Tzu:Users:chris:Documents:Test_Folder_1:"
set destFl to alias "Lao-Tzu:Users:chris:Documents:Test_Folder_2:"
set n to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter \"n\":"
default answer "")
tell application "Finder"
set fList to items of srcFl
repeat with ndx from 1 to count of fList by n
move item ndx of fList to destFl
end repeat
end tell
Chris
I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself. The files are from
experiments measuring fly activity. Each file in the folder
represents one fly and there are several different fly strains
intermixed with each other. I need to move all the files representing
one strain into their own folder. The way my data is organised I need
to choose which file to copy and then subsequently copy every nth
one. I then choose the next file and repeat the process until each
file in the folder has been copied to a new folder. I took bits of
your script and came up with:
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set theDestinationFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select a
destination folder:"
set nR to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter \"nR\":"
default answer "") -- the number of files in the folder divided by
the number of strains
set nP to text returned of (display dialog "Please enter \"nP\":"
default answer "") ---the number of strains
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
activate
repeat with i from 1 to nR
copy selection to theDestinationFolder
repeat with j from 1 to nP
key code 125 -- down arrow Key
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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It fails at "copy selection to theDestinationFolder"
Simon
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