Borderless image, scriptable

Question

I'm pessimistic about this at my skill/knowledge level, and (unless Applescript is able to do some things I'm not expecting) it has to do with Applescript in only a peripheral way. But I'll ask anyway.
Briefly, I'm looking for a way of opening an image file in such way that the screen image has absolutely no border -- not a border that's part of the image and not a window border. No border.
Actually, I've found FFView.app (freeware downloadable via macupdate.com) which does this very nicely (see for yourself), but is barely scriptable -- it produces a rectangular image display that indeed has no border. But the display isn't a window, or at least it doesn't act like one in my estimation.
My Applescript requirements for controlling this image might seem relatively modest (open image file, close image, and, the most difficult, "get/set bounds.")
How FFView accomplishes the borderless image is beyond me. Ideally, I need to find a scriptable image browser that can display an image file in a window that's been stripped of its border but still can be ordered around by Applescript. Despite a lot of looking, I haven't found any such thing. In fact, most "conventional" image browsers don't seem to be scriptable at all.
Am I missing something? Suggestions? Ideas?
Message was edited by: Noaks

Answer 1

The application won't allow you to add from it's dialog, but you can open an image from the Finder or use an AppleScript to add to the playlist. The following script will add a number of items to the playlist, where you can select one to view (I enabled the playlist drawer to let you choose). SInce this is a movie player, set the repeat preferences to "Repeat Single Movie" so it will stay on the selected playlist item.
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tell application "NicePlayer"
activate
try -- get the playlist
set ThePlayList to (playlist of window 1)
on error -- no window
set ThePlayList to (make new playlist)
end try
tell window 1 -- change some properties
set bounds to {100, 100, 740, 580}
set playlist is showing to true
set fixed aspect ratio to true
end tell
set TheMaximum to 3 -- a number of items to add
repeat with TheItem from 1 to TheMaximum -- add to the playlist
add (choose file with prompt "Select file (" & TheItem & " of " & TheMaximum & "):" without invisibles) to ThePlayList
end repeat
end tell
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