Re: Scripting Image Events - some kind of bug ?
Re: Scripting Image Events - some kind of bug ?
- Subject: Re: Scripting Image Events - some kind of bug ?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:29:02 -0700
On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Jay Louvion wrote:
le 13/09/05 13:34, Yvan KOENIG à email@hidden est réputé(e)
avoir
écrit :
why not add here something like
if not exist folder (thisFolder as text) & "bogus_folder_name" then
make new folder (thisFolder as text) & "bogus_folder_name" (*
check the
syntax *)
My previous script used that functionnality, but I was wondering
how to
adapt a new version to make it really easy to create a hierarchy
without
ever calling on "make folder". Specifying a path, that would create
folders
if they didn't exist. Some apps can do that, no ?
All I would have had to do is list the paths, get thefolder as
delimiter and
replace the end of the path, starting with a referrence to an "LD"
folder
(whether that existed or not) to create the hierarchy as the
resizing went
along...
You see, the bogus_folder is just a test, since in some cases, the
path can
be - thefolder &
":LDbogus_container:bogus_folder1:bogus_folder2:LD_DSC_1234.jpg"...
In general, applications will not create folders for you when
referencing a file. Sorry. However, if you don't want to do all the
processing yourself, then there's a shortcut involving the shell,
namely mkdir(1). This will rely on two tricks: first, the "POSIX
path" property doesn't care (mostly) about whether or not any of the
path components exist; second, mkdir(1) has a "-p" option that will
create *all* the folders specified in the path. So, for instance:
set p to thefolder &
":LDbogus_container:bogus_folder1:bogus_folder2:"
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of POSIX path of p
I'm breaking my own standard advice again by applying "POSIX path" to
a string, but the upshot is that when this is done,
LDbogus_container, bogus_folder1, and bogus_folder2 will all exist.
(That's the other feature of -p -- it won't error if any of the
folders already exist.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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