How to Create a Droplet - Help Requested

Question

I'm trying to create a droplet. I made a script but when I try to drop files into it nothing happens. Help . .
Here's the script
on run
display dialog "Print out Word 2004 documents" & return & return & ¬
"Drag Word documents (xxx.doc) onto this droplet to print out each one. " buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end run
on open the_Droppings
repeat with a_Doc in the_Droppings
tell application "Finder" to open file a_Doc
tell application "Microsoft Word"
repeat until name of active document is ((info for a_Doc)'s name as string)
end repeat
print out active document print copies 1
close active document saving no
end tell
end repeat
end open
This droplet will save me so much time cuz I print out a lot of stuff.
Thanks.
ed

Answer 1

You are in the wrong forum. You should post in the AppleScript forum, http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
I am surprised you need to ask because you have done the basic coding correctly. If you save your script as an app with none of the options checked it will be a droplet (there will be a down arrow on the icon) by virtue of the open handler which responds to items dropped on the app's icon; the run handler responds to a double click as you are obviously aware. Comment out the open handler and re-save and you will see the app's icon lose the down arrow. That's all it depends on – the presence of an open handler.
How well your open handler works is a completely different matter, not suitable for discussing here. Tip: while writing the code, start the open handler with say "open" so that you know the open handler has responded.
Happy coding!