Re: Can't drop onto my app

Subject: Re: Can't drop onto my app
From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:36:17 +1100

On 23/10/2010, at 3:14 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:

Ok, I feel sort of silly asking this, as I feel I've done this a billion times before, but somehow I'm missing something.

I've written a pretty extensive Quicktime editing script that processes one or a number of QT movies, adding black to the head, concatenating segments, etc and exporting to the desired format with a given naming convention (the text-manipulation was worse that the QT editing!). Everything works when I run the app just fine, I can select one or several source movies with my choose file with prompt.., etc, the script just chunks along happily.

I can't drop files onto the app. Dragging a QT movie does't activate the app in the finder, it doesn't select, nothing.

My structure is basically:

on run
choose file with prompt "Select the feature video file(s) to process:" default location result with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
set chosenFiles to result
set chooseFileFolder to parentFolder(first item of chosenFiles)
open chosenFiles
end run

...

on open videoFiles

process stuff here

end open

shouldn't these handlers allow me to either run the app and select the files in a dialog (which works fine) and/or drop files onto the app?

My brain isn't working this Friday, I guess.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

Steve Thompson
email@hidden
http://www.richcreamerygoodness.com

G'day Steve

It's simple, you should have brackets.......

on open (videoFiles)

set theflag to true

if (count of videoFiles) > 4 then

set the flag to false

display dialog "Do you really want to open " & (count of videoFiles) & " items?"

if result = "OK" then set theflag to true

end if

if theflag then

repeat with theItem in videoFiles

try

tell application "QuickTime Player 7"

open theItem

end tell

end try

end repeat

end if

end open

on run

set result to path to movies folder

choose file with prompt "Select the feature video file(s) to process:" default location result with multiple selections allowed without invisibles

set chosenFiles to result

set chooseFileFolder to parentFolder(first item of chosenFiles)

open chosenFiles

end run

Regards

Santa

And what, you ask, was the beginning of it all?

And it is this......

Existence that multiplied itself

For sheer delight of being

And plunged with numberless trillions of forms

So that it might

find

itself

innumerably

Sri Aurobindo

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