Re: This AppleScript stuff is harder than I thought
Re: This AppleScript stuff is harder than I thought
- Subject: Re: This AppleScript stuff is harder than I thought
- From: Sparky <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:58:18 -0700
I want to say thank you to everybody that has submitted a post in
response to my throw-up-the-hands posting. Several have offered
script snippet suggestions that work in the general case but don't
seem to do everything I need. So let me be more clear about what it
is I'm trying to do. First a sentence or two of background.
I've developing a Java-based product that includes a J2SE application
and a J2ME MIDlet. The two components will communicate using
Bluetooth. I'm primarily using the Eclipse IDE to develop both
pieces. Both I also use the NetBeans IDE on occasion (don't ask). In
order to test the system using real Bluetooth hardware, I build and
test one component on my Windows XP box and other on my Mac. I can
mount the XP disk on my Mac, but I don't want to compile across the
LAN because it's much too slow. Both projects share some common code
-- and that's why I want to be able to just press a button to copy
the source tree on one machine over to the other machine. But
Eclipse, NetBeans and source code control all keep files interspersed
in my source tree for various reasons. The problem is that some of
these settings contain platform-specific paths that can't be used on
the other platform.
So what I'm trying to do is to copy all folders EXCEPT the ones named
'build' or '.externalToolBuilders'. And I want all files copied
except those named '.project', '.classpath' and '.nbattrs'. But these
files can occur anywhere in the source tree. Of course, if a file is
deleted in the source tree, I also want them to disappear in the
destination tree. Etc...
I've tried doing this using the standard Automator Actions. But it
appears that the output of Get Folder Contents isn't suitable for use
by the Filter Finder Items action. Item names that begin with a
period also appear not to be handled properly. The complications seem
at this point to be endless. Automator is cool -- truly. At least it
seems like it will be down the road. But the capabilities of the
current set of actions seem to scream "Version 1.0" to me.
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