Apple

On May 12, 2012, at 20:37, Shane Stanley wrote:

On 11/05/2012, at 6:15 PM, Christopher Stone wrote:
Now this is weird. I drop 35 items on the following in an app, and it gives me a length of 7.

For anyone following, we continued this discussion elsewhere. It seems that in 10.7, any .dmg files are silently ignored. It happened that Chris's sample files were mostly .dmg files.

That's weird enough, but what's even weirder is that if all the files dragged are .dmg, they are handled fine.

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Hey Folks,

This is on 10.7.4 (although there were similar issues on 10.7.3).

The entire contents of a folder dropped onto:

Droplet:

1 ~:Downloads:2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered):GIMP-2.8.0-SnowLeopard-Lion.dmg

2 ~:Downloads:2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered):Sends Correctly to BBEdit.scpt

3 ~:Downloads:2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered):Sends Incorrectly to BBEdit.scpt

4 ~:Downloads:2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered):Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg

BBEdit (sorted by file-type):

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Cocktail 5.3 (Lion).dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Cookie 3.0.1.dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/GIMP-2.8.0-SnowLeopard-Lion.dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Opera 11.64 (Intel).dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Skype 5.7.0.1130.dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Windownaut 1.2.dmg

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Do Not Track Plus 2.2.0.510-cnet-safari.safariextz

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Sends Correctly to BBEdit.scpt

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Sends Incorrectly to BBEdit.scpt

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/Lion_DiskMaker_1.7.zip

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/LionDiskMaker 1.7b1.zip

~/Downloads/2012-05-12-062705 (Gathered)/TidyUp301.zip

The BBEdit-list is correct.

Here's the latest iteration of the droplet which has options for BBEdit, TextWrangler, and TextEdit.

If you put it in the Dock you can use the run-handler to test against the selection in the Finder as well.

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on makeList(fileList)

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return

set _list to text items of (fileList as text)

repeat with i from 1 to (length of _list)

tell (a reference to item i of _list)

set (its contents) to ("" & i & " " & (get its contents))

end tell

end repeat

set _list to _list as text

tell application "BBEdit"

activate

set newDoc to make new document with properties {text:_list}

end tell

# tell application "TextWrangler"

# activate

# set newDoc to make new document with properties {text:_list}

# end tell

# tell application "TextEdit"

# activate

# set newDoc to make new document with properties {text:_list}

# tell newDoc's text

# set font to "Menlo"

# set size to 14

# end tell

end makeList

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on open droppedFiles

makeList(droppedFiles)

end open

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on run

tell application "Finder"

set sel to selection as alias list

end tell

makeList(sel)

end run

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I'm relieved to know this problem is not unique to my machine/system, but the inconsistency with other people's experience is frustrating.

Best Regards,

Chris