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AppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III
Filed under: Features, How-tos, AppleScript
So far in this AppleScript feature we've covered what folder actions are and how to create them. In this AppleScript post, I'm going to tell you how to create your own custom scripts and add them to your folder actions list. If you work with file permissions a lot, then you know how crazy it can get when you need to change a ton of files to their correct permission types. With this AppleScript folder action, you can easily change the permissions just by dragging and dropping files in their correct folder.
Creating the Script
To get started, we'll open the Script Editor (located in /Applications/Utilities). Once you have the editor opened, copy/paste the following script:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
set fold_name to the name of this_folder
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in added_items
set new_item to item i of added_items
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of new_item
do shell script ("/bin/chmod -R +r " & item_path)
end repeat
end try
end tell
end adding folder items to
This script will change the dropped files to a permission of "0644" meaning that everyone can read the file. For information about chmod and command line permissions strings, visit the Wikipedia page. Continue reading to learn more about this AppleScript and folder actions.
Continue reading AppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III
TUAWAppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt comes to Mac
Fast Rabbit Software has launched the latest game in its series of educational applications for the Mac, Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt. The game is geared towards students in grades 2-to-5, and designed to introduce kids to two dimensional graphing and the Cartesian coordinate system. While trying help students learn to read and identify points on a graph using the Cartesian coordinate system, the ...
AppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III
Filed under: Features, How-tos, AppleScript
So far in this AppleScript feature we've covered what folder actions are and how to create them. In this AppleScript post, I'm going to tell you how to create your own custom scripts and add them to your folder actions list. If you work with file permissions a lot, then you know how crazy it can get when you need to change a ton of files to their correct permission types. With this AppleScript folder action, you can easily change the permissions just by dragging and dropping files in their correct folder.
Creating the Script
To get started, we'll open the Script Editor (located in /Applications/Utilities). Once you have the editor opened, copy/paste the following script:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
set fold_name to the name of this_folder
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in added_items
set new_item to item i of added_items
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of new_item
do shell script ("/bin/chmod -R +r " & item_path)
end repeat
end try
end tell
end adding folder items to
This script will change the dropped files to a permission of "0644" meaning that everyone can read the file. For information about chmod and command line permissions strings, visit the Wikipedia page. Continue reading to learn more about this AppleScript and folder actions.
Continue reading AppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III
TUAWAppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part III originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Eltima Software has released Flash'in'App 2.0, an update to its Cocoa framework that enables developers to load and manage Adobe Flash movies in any application on the Mac. The software will support SWF files, manage their playback, and can handle sounds, videos, and images. The new version provides several added features that allow users to set Flash background color for playback, to customize th...
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