Re: SO.
Re: SO.
- Subject: Re: SO.
- From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:26:46 -0500
Are you listening Apple?
This and thousands of every day stories played out in the success end of the pool are why Applescript deserves a little more of your attention and a few bucks out of that massive war chest.
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Christopher Stone
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On Aug 12, 2011, at 21:05, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> Stupid little success story.
>
> SO. We have this biggish project to do in the 8 figure range where we need to convert old stuff to modern HTML and Javascripty stuff. Several thousand screens across 3 platforms, + other bits of suck.
>
> The advertised tools that we required to to the GUI part of the job weren't really pulling the mustard.
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> "Screwed the pooch" it sorta more like it.
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> Looking at the issues, I'm like "mmmmm, I can do this."
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> SOz, I crack open ye trusty Script Debugger and start cranking a few months ago.
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> Weeeellll, today, I got things mature, took 100 screens and found out that 50% of them process right off the bat.
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> So, I took that 50%, set Batch Processing Powers to ACTIVATE, opened them and said, "GO, you bastards, go".
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> 41 seconds later, 52 files of old were converted to modern goodness. Something that would have taken us days - per screen.
>
> All in AppleScript with a few shell calls. No shit.
>
> Thanks for the help guys!
>
> - Zav
> "I love it when a plan comes together" - Matt Damon.
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