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1. Re: Help with Photobooth script (Brannock Thomas)
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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:17:01 -0700
From: Brannock Thomas <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Help with Photobooth script
To: Automator List <email@hidden>
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Search online for an app called "Automator Loop Utility". I don't
remember who made it but I used that exact tool to take pictures with
photobooth on a schedule. What you do is create your app, then drop it
on this utility and it creates a program that runs the app every x
minutes. I am not sure if this works in Leopard, I haven't used it in
a while.
Incidentally, if the default time frames aren't to your liking, I was
able to modify the utility in applescript to meet my needs. Just don't
set it to take pictures every 5 seconds, you'll have a hell of a time
getting your computer to do anything or stopping the app (learned that
from exp).
Tom
On Aug 7, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Ben Waldie wrote:
Hyejin,
On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:43 PM, stickyrice wrote:
Thanks for your help. Do you know how I would automate this to
launch every 30 mins or so? I'm not sure how to open the script in
iCal. When I go to choose it, the automator action is greyed out.
Try selecting "Save as Plug-in..." from Automator's "File" menu.
Then, save the workflow as an iCal alarm plug-in. This should
create an event in iCal, configured to run the workflow. You can
then put the event on a repeating schedule. I don't think you can
repeat an iCal event every 30 minutes, so you may have to duplicate
the event, adjust the time, and set each one up to repeat every day.
Regards,
-Ben
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