Repeat movie
I am making a slideshow for a banquet in iMovie with pictures and music. Is there anyway after I export it for quicktime or a program to keep repeating it? Thanks!!!
awesome, thanks so much. can it do a continuous loop. sorry, im not at my computer and this project was thrown at me at the last minute.
EDIT: nvrmind found it online. thanks for the info!
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Newbie Help: Single Axis Repeated Movement
Hi there - I have a (hopefully) simple question about creating a VI with NI Motion to help me control a stepper motor.
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My iPod has software version 1.3.Hi Everline
You've probably solved this by now but,
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AppleScript: Move the oldest Item of a folder
Hi,
i'm a newbie in AppleScript and trying to get my simple Script running, but it doesn't want.
The Script should look into "Folder_1" and should move only the OLDEST Item (File or Subfolder) in this Folder to another directory called "Folder_2"
But this is not running, some Ideas?
Code:
tell application "Finder"
activate
set sourceFolder to "System:Users:Administrator:Desktop:Folder_1"
set destinationFolder to "System:Users:Administrator:Desktop:Folder_2"
move oldest item 1 of folder sourceFolder to folder destinationFolder
end tell
Any Ideas?
It would be nice if someone can assist me in my first steps.Better formatted:
set homePath to (path to home folder) as text
tell application "Finder"
set sourceFolder to folder (homePath & "Desktop:Folder_1")
set destinationFolder to folder (homePath & "Desktop:Folder_2")
set creationDates to creation date of items of sourceFolder
-- Which item is the oldest?
set theOldestDate to item 1 of creationDates
set j to 1
repeat with i from 1 to count creationDates
set thisDate to item i of creationDates
if thisDate < theOldestDate then
set theOldestDate to thisDate
set j to i
end if
end repeat
move item j of sourceFolder to destinationFolder
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Powerpoint make movie - how to script this?
I want to convert a Powerpoint File (ppt) to a QT movie. Does anybody know how to script this with AppleScript?
Thanks!Bernhard,
Here is a follow-up script that works in the previous version of PowerPoint (v.X). I am not sure how much the latest version of PowerPoint has changed with regards to the location of the "Make Movie..." command or the dialog windows that are related to that command but hopefully not at all. Try it out and see whether it does what you are wanting. I assumed that you would want the movie placed in your Movies folder and that the default settings in the dialogs were okay.
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">property delayTime : 2
on run {}
-- Use the "Make Movie..." command in PowerPoint to make a QuickTime movie
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft PowerPoint"
set frontmost to true
set theNameOfPresentation to title of last window
-- Click on the Make Movie... command in the File menu
perform action "AXPress" of menu item "Make Movie..." of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
repeat until ((exists of sheet 1 of window theNameOfPresentation) is true)
end repeat
-- Move to the the Desktop
keystroke "d" using {command down}
delay delayTime
-- Enter the name of the Presentation
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delay delayTime
-- Click on the Save button
perform action "AXPress" of button "Save" of sheet 1 of window theNameOfPresentation
delay delayTime
end tell
end tell
-- Move the newly created movie from the Desktop to the Users Movies folder
tell application "Finder"
delay delayTime
try
move file (theNameOfPresentation & ".mov") of desktop to (path to movies folder)
on error errNum
display dialog errNum
end try
end tell
end run
</pre>
PowerBook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.6) -
Thoroughly disappointed with Apple & Lion...
I have never been disapointed with Apple before, but after using Lion for nearly a week I am really upset. I used to work at an Apple Store, I have used Macs since I was about 4, I try to convert all my friends, I follow nearly every rumor site I can find, I use my mac or my iPhone for basically anything I possibly can, and I bring my Mac to work with me and use it instead of my office-supplied PC whenever humanly possible. For the first time ever, I actually chose to use the PC over my Mac because of Lion...
Last night I tried to use TimeMachine to backup my computer to my 2TB G-Drive. After "Preparing backup" for nearly an hour, it finally started to backup and it crawled through the backup slower than I have ever seen it before. After about an hour and a half it finished backing up 24GB. I turned it off for the night thinking it had been running at full capacity for a while and needed a break. Now whenever I boot up my mac, I have one of a few different problems: Either finder will not load at all and my desktop will be blank and the menubar will have gaps in it, or finder will load and none of the icons on the desktop will be responsive and the dock will not load. Earlier I did get it to boot up correctly and I used it for about 30 minutes until I got the pinwheel in safari, then mail became unresponsive, then iCal became unresponsive, then System Prefs became unresponsive... I had to restart my computer and then it got stuck at the grey screen with the spinning wheel on the restart.
Since I have installed and used Lion:
My system is gotten really really slow; evertything from logging in to changing settings to opening applications has become a taxing chore that works by CPU to the bone (I can't even launch Activity Monitor without it freezing up!)
I have gotten the pinwheel on many occasions and I have frequently been forced to force quit apps or force restart my computer
I have had problems with a few of the new getstures; I have gotten fully used to the idea of scrolling up to go down and vice versa, but frequently I will have my thumb on the trackpad and when I scroll up, Mission control will launch (I changed the settings to 4 finger swipe up so this no longer happens, but still annoying Apple wouldn't have thought to address this)
I have noticed minor glitches in many different areas of use; i.e., when logging in with a desktop background that changes on login, the translucent menubar will show the previous photo while the desktop shows the new photo.
Many useful gestures have dissapeared: there is a gesture for swiping through windows in the iTunes store/app store/finder etc. but it is very irritating and not as functional (why couldn't they just use the 2 finger swipe?!?), there is no longer an expose that shows minimized windows (unless you do a 3 finger down with the app already open)
No easy shortcut for fullscreen apps!!! Come on Apple, CMD+CTRL+F is a pain to do with one hand... why not create a simple shortcut or a gesture to enter fullscreen
TimeMachine constantly displays "Last Backup: Delayed" even though it has been less than 24hrs since my last backup
Whenever I try to use the dock (unhide it by moving my mouse to the right side of the screen), the dock rarely responds the first time and I will have to repeatedly move my mouse to the side for the dock to pop up.
For a company that never seems to dissapoint, Lion seems like an absolute disaster. I have had more problems with my computer in the last 6 days than I have had in the last 6 months with Snow Leopard. I think Apple needs to step-up, man-up, acknowledge their customers, acknowledge the complaints from customers, acknowledge the issues customers have found, and work 24-7 until they can release a patch to fix this stuff...Forums like these exist to help solve people's problems. Happy users don't tend to post on support forums.
You'll find that the huge majority of users are happy, and in fact the feedback on Lion has been very positive.
I would focus on trying to resolve your personal issues, before having a rant about Lion.
First of all, I started off my commenting on issues last week defending Lion and trying to convince everyone that there were some minor issues and that the software was a significant improvement at the least.
The reason why the feedback for Lion has been so positive is the exact reason you claim the discussion boards are all negative. For the most part, people who are upset with Lion are not going to go to the App Store and give Lion a negative review; they are going to search for similar issues online and try to find solutions before giving a bad review.
And personal issues? Either you are trying to insult me by bringing an unrelated matter into this or you are claiming I have not tried to resolve any of the issues stated above. I have spent hours upon hours scouring the discussion board articles for answers to these problems and have found nothing but pleas for help from other members. This is not a rant, it is simply voicing my opinion regarding Lion.
Going back to SL would more than likely cause more problems if not excacerbate the problems that already exist. Not to mention that would be a "sweeping it under the rug" kind of solution... -
Renaming Files In 2-Number-Steps ... how to? (w. or w/o Automator)
Dear all,
I have Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 and a question: I have a 2-pages-per-sheet-PDF-document. I exported the file as single .jpgs in my Adobe Acrobat 11 program. Now I have 10 sheets (20 pages) as jpg. I want to batch crop them with Photo Batch for Mac which is not my problem. I now have 10 left pages (1-3-5-7-9-...) and 10 right pages (2-4-6-8-...).
I made the left - hand - pages first, they are now 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg etc.
I thence made the right - hand - pages, they are now 011.jpg, 012.jpg, 013.jpg, etc.
Now I could rearrange everything in one single PDF with 20 pages / 20 sheets, but then I had to manually sort everything in the right way. I need help for the following:
How can I batch rename a heap of files to odd numbers in ascending order?
How can I batch rename a heap of files to even numbers in ascending order?
Then I could just hit the merge button in Acrobat and did not have to sort everything in Adobe :-)
Thanks for help!
Yours truly Holger RogollHi,
Use this AppleScript to rename JPEG's files:
set tFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder which contains JPEG's file"
tell application "Finder"
set jpegs to document files of tFolder whose name extension is "jpg"
set tc to (count jpegs) div 2
set tmpF to make new folder at tFolder
set rJpegs to move items (tc + 1) thru -1 of jpegs to tmpF -- move right - hand - pages to new folder ( to avoid name conflict when renaming)
set j to (tc * 2) - 1
repeat with i from tc to 2 by -1 -- rename left, skip the first item because the name of the first JPEG is OK
set name of item i of jpegs to (text -3 thru -1 of ("00" & j)) & ".jpg"
set j to j - 2
end repeat
set j to 2
repeat with i from 1 to (tc - 1) -- rename right, skip the last item because the name of the last JPEG is OK
set name of item i of rJpegs to (text -3 thru -1 of ("00" & j)) & ".jpg"
set j to j + 2
end repeat
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delete tmpF -- delete the created folder
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Moving items up and down in a JList
Hello I posted this query in the wrong forum and so now I am trying to correct the problem Here is the link
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5267663&tstart=0
Hi-
I have a problem with moving selected items up and down in a JList..
When I select an item in the JList and press ctrl + (the up or down arrow key),
I want the selected item to move up (or down).
My code works. That is to say it does what I want, only the highlighted item does not correspond to the selected item.
When I move an item up I would like it to remain selected, which I guess it is as repeated moves will move the item.
But it does not appear to be working. because the highlight is above the selected item when moving up and below the selected item when moving down.
Here is my code:
public class MyClass implements MouseListener,KeyListener
private JList linkbox;
private DefaultListModel dlm;
public List<String> Links= new ArrayList<String>();
private String Path;
private JScrollPane Panel;
public MyClass (String path,JScrollPane panel){
super();
Path=path;
Panel=panel;
//Populate the ArrayList "Links" etcetera.
dlm = new DefaultListModel();
linkbox = new JList(dlm);
for(int k=0;k<Links.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(Links.get(k));
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
System.out.println("You pressed "+e.getKeyCode());
if(e.getKeyCode()==38&&e.getModifiers()==KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK){
Link sellink =linkbox.getSelectedValue();
MoveUP(sellink);
if(e.getKeyCode()==40&&e.getModifiers()==KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK){
Link sellink =get(linkbox.getSelectedValue();
MoveDown(sellink);
private void MoveUP(Link link){
int pos=-1;
for(int p=0;p<Links.size();p++){
Link l=Links.get(p);
if(l.indexOf(link)==0){
pos=p;
break;
if(pos!=-1&&pos>0){
Links.remove(link);
Links.add(pos-1,link);
dlm.removeAllElements();
for(int k=0;k<Links.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(Links.get(k));
Panel.setViewportView(linkbox);
linkbox.setSelectedIndex(pos-1);
private void MoveDown(Link link){
int pos=-1;
for(int p=0;p<Links.size();p++){
Link l=Links.get(p);
if(l.indexOf(link)==0){
pos=p;
break;
if(pos!=Links.size()-1&&pos>0){
System.out.println("pos= "+pos);
Links.remove(link);
Links.add(pos+1,link);
dlm.removeAllElements();
for(int k=0;k<Links.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(Links.get(k));
Panel.setViewportView(linkbox);
linkbox.setSelectedIndex(pos+1);
}And here is a compileable version...
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.DefaultListModel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
class MoveableItems implements KeyListener
private JList jlist;
private List<String> items = new ArrayList<String>();
private DefaultListModel dlm;
private JScrollPane sp;
public MoveableItems(){
JFrame f = new JFrame();
items.add("Fox");
items.add("Hounds");
items.add("Cart");
items.add("Horse");
items.add("Chicken");
items.add("Egg");
dlm = new DefaultListModel();
jlist = new JList(dlm);
KeyListener[] kls=jlist.getKeyListeners();
for(int k=0;k<kls.length;k++){
jlist.removeKeyListener(kls[k]);
jlist.addKeyListener(this);
for(int k=0;k<items.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(items.get(k));
sp = new JScrollPane();
sp.setViewportView(jlist);
f.getContentPane().add(sp);
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.setSize(650, 250);
f.setVisible(true);
public static void main(String[] args)
try{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e.getMessage());}
new MoveableItems();
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
System.out.println("You pressed "+e.getKeyCode());
if(e.getKeyCode()==38&&e.getModifiers()==KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK){
String selString =(String)jlist.getSelectedValue();
MoveUP(selString);
if(e.getKeyCode()==40&&e.getModifiers()==KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK){
String selString =(String)jlist.getSelectedValue();
MoveDown(selString);
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
private void MoveUP(String link){
int pos=-1;
for(int p=0;p<items.size();p++){
String l=items.get(p);
if(l.indexOf(link)==0){
pos=p;
break;
if(pos!=-1&&pos>0){
items.remove(link);
items.add(pos-1,link);
dlm.removeAllElements();
for(int k=0;k<items.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(items.get(k));
sp.setViewportView(jlist);
jlist.setSelectedIndex(pos-1);
jlist.requestFocus();
private void MoveDown(String link){
int pos=-1;
for(int p=0;p<items.size();p++){
String l=items.get(p);
if(l.indexOf(link)==0){
pos=p;
break;
if(pos<items.size()){
System.out.println("pos= "+pos);
items.remove(link);
items.add(pos+1,link);
dlm.removeAllElements();
for(int k=0;k<items.size();k++){
dlm.addElement(items.get(k));
sp.setViewportView(jlist);
jlist.setSelectedIndex(pos+1);
jlist.requestFocus();
}Now for some reason this works better.
I notice that the highlight does follow the selection but there is also something else there.
Still in my original version the highlight seems to appear where the dotted lines are?
There seems to be dotted lines around the item above or below the selected item (depending on whether you are going up or down).
Any thoughts at this point would be appreciated.
-Reg.
Can anyone explain to me why this is so and if it can be fixed?
If any one can help I would be grateful,
-RegYou seem to be making a genuine effort. Key Bindings like anything else involves getting familiar with the code and the idiosyncrasies involved and just playing with the code yourself. To get you started, if the JList were called myList I'd do something like this for the up key:
KeyStroke ctrlUp = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_UP, InputEvent.CTRL_DOWN_MASK);
myList.getInputMap().put(ctrlUp, "Control Up");
myList.getActionMap().put("Control Up", new AbstractAction()
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
// do stuff to move your item up
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Windows biometric framework - Bad Capture Images
I'm developing a .net application, which is necessary to obtain the image of a fingerprint through a biometric scanner.
Now I am using the following code:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/ee207405(v=vs.85).aspx
This we supplement with the proposal in this posthttps://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/f6f09403-e0b6-4977-b697-d5aabeb5b8ff/how-to-convert-winbiobir-data-into-image-using-windows-biometric-framework?forum=wdkto
to obtain a jpg image.
So far so good, but I found the problem with wbf the image is cut off on the sides,
I show examples (I show only the edges):
In this example, the image is cut on the left and right, but sometimes also makes it up and down and not very regular shapes, my theory
is that short sections where the image does not have a very good quality, but my case is important that information.
The image on the left is taken with this method, while the right is taken with neurotecnologic (same scanner).This
may seem minimal, I validations traces difficult as cutting your image removes some features on the edges,
so sometimes you have to repeatedly move your finger across the scanner to validate.
My question is if this is a problem Framework or is there some parameter in the capture function that allows me to return the whole
picture?
Regards DarioAnybody ?
-R___K -
Aperture Script - Can't replicate problem
I wrote this script to rename and File Aperture projects by date : http://www.johneday.com/9/rename-and-file-aperture-projects-by-date .
A Mountain Lion user has given me this feedback:
OK, so I get the error that the EXIF tag does not have capture year. I'm on Mountain Lion, and recall that it worked on one project the very first time I ran the script after downloading and installing it... it's almost as if some flag gets set to true or false and it needs to be reset.
Can anyone running Mountain Lion replicate this problem for me? Any insights about what is going wrong for him would be appreciated.
set yourFolder to "Imported by Date" -- Name your folder here
set appendParent to false -- If true, the selected parent's name will be appended to the new project name
set makeSubfolders to false -- If true, new projects will be created in year/month/ folders.
property delimiter : "-"
try
tell application "Aperture"
activate
-- Wait until Aperture is finished processing other tasks
repeat
set taskCount to count of tasks
if taskCount is 1 then
display alert "Aperture is processing another task" message "Please wait for the task to complete and try again" buttons {"Try again", "Cancel"} default button {"Try again"} cancel button {"Cancel"}
else if taskCount > 1 then
display alert "Aperture is processing " & taskCount & " tasks" message "Please wait for the tasks to complete and try again" buttons {"Try again", "Cancel"} default button {"Try again"} cancel button {"Cancel"}
else
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
-- Verify that at least one item is selected
if selection is {} then display alert "The selection {} is empty" message "Please select ONE Project, Folder or Album from the Library tab in the sidebar and try again." buttons {"OK"} cancel button {"OK"}
-- Get the selected Parent ID
tell item 1 of (selection as list) to set theParent to parent
set {parentClass, parentName} to {class, name} of theParent
if parentClass is album then display dialog "Albums may contain images from multiple projects. Are you sure you want to move these images from their projects?"
-- Get date of every image in the selected Parent
tell theParent to set dateList to every image version's (value of EXIF tag "ImageDate")
tell library 1
-- Create your folder if it does not exist
if not (exists folder yourFolder) then make new folder with properties {name:yourFolder}
-- Assign name of every project in your folder to a list for the Create project command below
-- (exists project isoImageDate) command is too slow to be included in the loop
if not makeSubfolders then tell folder yourFolder to set parentList to name of every project
set dateTest to {}
repeat with aDate in my dateList
-- Test each date to avoid processing duplicates
set shortDate to short date string of aDate
if dateTest does not contain shortDate then
set end of dateTest to shortDate
-- Convert the image date to YYYY-MM-DD format
set projectYear to year of aDate as string
set projectMonth to (month of aDate as integer) as string
if length of projectMonth is 1 then set projectMonth to "0" & projectMonth
set projectDay to (day of aDate as integer) as string
if length of projectDay is 1 then set projectDay to "0" & projectDay
set isoImageDate to projectYear & delimiter & projectMonth & delimiter & projectDay as string
if appendParent then set isoImageDate to isoImageDate & space & parentName
tell folder yourFolder
if makeSubfolders then
--Create year and month folders if year folder does not exist
if not (exists folder projectYear) then make new folder with properties {name:projectYear}
tell folder projectYear
if not (exists folder projectMonth) then make new folder with properties {name:projectMonth}
end tell
--Create project if it does not exist
if ((name of every project of folder projectMonth of folder projectYear) does not contain isoImageDate) then tell folder projectMonth of folder projectYear to make new project with properties {name:isoImageDate}
-- Move the images into the project
move (every image version of theParent whose value of EXIF tag "CaptureYear" is year of aDate and value of EXIF tag "CaptureMonthOfYear" is month of aDate as integer and value of EXIF tag "CaptureDayOfMonth" is day of aDate) to project isoImageDate of folder projectMonth of folder projectYear
else -- If not makeSubfolders
--Create project if it does not exist
if parentList does not contain isoImageDate then make new project with properties {name:isoImageDate}
-- Move the images into the project
move (every image version of theParent whose value of EXIF tag "CaptureYear" is year of aDate and value of EXIF tag "CaptureMonthOfYear" is month of aDate as integer and value of EXIF tag "CaptureDayOfMonth" is day of aDate) to project isoImageDate
end if
end tell
end if
end repeat
-- Move the initial container to the Trash if no images remain or if it is an album
if parentClass is album then
delete theParent
else if (count of image versions of theParent) is 0 then
delete theParent
end if
beep
end tell
end tell
on error errMsg number errNum
tell me
activate
display alert errMsg & return & return & "Error number" & errNum buttons "Cancel"
end tell
end try
EXIF Tag Name Mapping
The following table provides a mapping between EXIF tag names found in the Aperture 3 interface and EXIF tag names that appear in AppleScript.Well, the obvious answer to your question is that Aperture in not seeing a 'CaptureYear' EXIF tag on an image. The way you have your try block set up, that amounts to a fatal error in your script. why it's not seeing a capture year is a different question. you might try asking the user with the problem to log the EXIF names for the images s/he's working on:
get name of every EXIF tag of image versions of theParent
you might also try breaking the complex command down into two simpler commands, in case ML has introduced a race condition:
set movables to get (image versions of theParent whose (value of EXIF tag "CaptureYear" is year of aDate) and (value of EXIF tag "CaptureMonthOfYear" is (month of aDate as integer)) and (value of EXIF tag "CaptureDayOfMonth" is day of aDate))
move movables to project isoImageDate of folder projectMonth of folder projectYear
Of course, it could just be goofy user error as well - trying to run the script on an empty album or somesuch.
Sorry I can't test this myself; my copy of aperture is an expired demo I keep around so I have access to the scripting dictionary (aperture questions are common enough to make that worthwhile), so I can't actually use it for anything. -
AppleScript: Safari - Save As Web Archive
The title says it all: Can someone tell me please how - most likely via UI scripting, since I can't see anything in the dictionary - I can get Safari to save the front most document as a Web Archive using AppleScript?
This is one I have recently written that saves all tabs in a window, it remembers the parent folder until next time, and also uses the webarchive ending when Safari is in doubt. You can set properties for whether you like it to overwrite or not. Please look at Macscripter for any updates.
property tlvl : me
# Release 1.0.1
# © 2012 McUsr and put in Public Domain under GPL 1.0
# Please refer to this post: http://macscripter.net/post.php?tid=30892
property shallClose : false # set this to false if you don't want to close the windows, just saving them
property dontOverWriteSavedTabs : false # set this to true if you don't want to overwrite already saved tabs in the folder
script saveTabsInSafariWindowsToFolder
property parent : AppleScript
property scripttitle : "SafariSaveTabs"
on run
if downloadWindowInFront() then return 0 # activates Safari
local script_cache
set script_cache to my storage's scriptCache()
set saveFolder to POSIX path of (getHFSFolder({theMessage:"Choose or create folder to save Safari-tabs in.", hfsPath:DefaultLocation of script_cache as alias}))
if saveFolder = false then return 0 -- we were obviously mistaken, about what we wanted to do.
my storage's saveParenFolderInScriptCache(saveFolder, script_cache)
tell application "Safari"
tell its window 1
local tabc, oldidx
set tabc to count tabs of it
if not tlvl's shallClose then
set oldidx to index of current tab
tell tab tabc to do JavaScript "self.focus()"
end if
local saveCounter
set saveCounter to 1 -- regulates setting of save folder to only first time in Safari.
repeat while tabc > 0
local theUrl, theIdx, theProtocol, alreadyClosed
set {theUrl, theIdx, alreadyClosed} to {URL of its current tab, index of its current tab, false}
if my isntAduplicateTab(theIdx, it) then
set theProtocol to my urlprotocol(theUrl)
if theProtocol is in {"http", "https"} then
# save it
set saveCounter to my saveCurrentTab(saveFolder, saveCounter)
else if theProtocol is "file" then
# make an alias of it
my makeAliasForAFurl(saveFolder, theUrl)
end if
else
if tlvl's shallClose then
close current tab
set alreadyClosed to true
end if
end if
if not alreadyClosed and tlvl's shallClose then
close current tab of it
set tabc to tabc - 1
else if not tlvl's shallClose then
set tabc to tabc - 1
if tabc > 0 then tell tab tabc to do JavaScript "self.focus()"
end if
end repeat
# move forwards
if not tlvl's shallClose then
tell tab oldidx to do JavaScript "self.focus()"
end if
end tell
end tell
end run
to makeAliasForAFurl(destinationFolder, furl)
local ti, tids, thefilePath
set ti to "file://"
set {tids, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, ti}
set thefilePath to text item 2 of furl
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tids
set theFile to POSIX file thefilePath as alias
set theFolder to POSIX file destinationFolder
tell application "Finder"
make alias at theFolder to theFile
# I don't care if there was one there from before, as it could equally
# be a file with the same name.
end tell
end makeAliasForAFurl
to saveCurrentTab(destinationFolder, timeNumber)
tell application id "sfri" to activate
tell application "System Events"
set UI elements enabled to true
tell process "Safari"
keystroke "s" using {command down}
tell window 1
repeat until exists sheet 1
delay 0.2
end repeat
tell sheet 1
if timeNumber = 1 then -- We'll set the savepath upon first call
keystroke "g" using {command down, shift down}
repeat until exists sheet 1
delay 0.2
end repeat
tell sheet 1
set value of text field 1 to destinationFolder
click button 1
delay 0.1
end tell
end if
keystroke return
delay 0.2
if exists sheet 1 then -- We are being asked if we want to overwrite already saved tab
if dontOverWriteSavedTabs then
keystroke return # if it was already saved. We don't overwrite it
click button 3
else
keystroke tab
keystroke space # we are to overwrite
end if
else
try
set dummy to focused of sheet 1
on error
# click button 1 of panel of application "Safari"
keystroke return
delay 0.2
if exists sheet 1 then -- We are being asked if we want to overwrite already saved tab
if dontOverWriteSavedTabs then
keystroke return # if it was already saved. We don't overwrite it
click button 3
else
keystroke tab
keystroke space # we are to overwrite
end if
end if
end try
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
set timeNumber to timeNumber + 1
return timeNumber
end saveCurrentTab
on downloadWindowInFront()
tell application "Safari"
activate
set tabCount to count tabs of its window 1
if tabCount < 1 then
tell application "SystemUIServer" to activate
activate
return true # Downloads window or somethingelse
end if
end tell
return false
end downloadWindowInFront
on isntAduplicateTab(idxOfCurrentTab, theWin)
using terms from application "Safari"
tell theWin
set curTabname to name of tab idxOfCurrentTab
set curTabUrl to URL of tab idxOfCurrentTab
repeat with i from (idxOfCurrentTab - 1) to 1 by -1
if name of tab i = curTabname and URL of tab i = curTabUrl then return false
end repeat
return true
end tell
end using terms from
end isntAduplicateTab
on getHFSFolder(R) -- Returns hfsPathAsText
-- R : {Amessage:theMessage,hfsPath:aStartPath}
local new_path, failed
set failed to false
tell application "SystemUIServer"
activate
repeat while true
try
set new_path to (choose folder with prompt (theMessage of R) default location (hfsPath of R) without invisibles) as text
on error e number n
if n is -128 then
set failed to true
exit repeat
end if
end try
exit repeat
end repeat
end tell
if failed is true then
return false
else
return new_path
end if
end getHFSFolder
on urlprotocol(anUrl)
# returns the protocol of an Url, i.e. http, https, file, localhost etc.
local tids, theProtocol
set {tids, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, "://"}
set theProtocol to text item 1 of anUrl
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tids
return theProtocol
end urlprotocol
to parentfolder for aPath
local colons, slashes, origDelims
set {colons, slashes} to {false, false}
if (offset of ":" in aPath) > 0 then set colons to true
if (offset of "/" in aPath) > 0 then set slashes to true
if colons and slashes then
return null
else if colons then
set origDelims to ":"
else if slashes then
set origDelims to "/"
else
return null
end if
local tids
set {tids, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, origDelims}
if aPath = "/" then
-- we return root when we get root
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tids
return "/"
end if
local theParentFolder
if text -1 of aPath is in {":", "/"} then
set theParentFolder to text items 1 thru -2 of text 1 thru -2 of aPath
else
set theParentFolder to text items 1 thru -2 of aPath
end if
set theParentFolder to theParentFolder as text
if slashes and theParentFolder = "" then set theParentFolder to "/"
-- sets the root path if we got a folder one level below it
if colons and (":" is not in theParentFolder) then set theParentFolder to theParentFolder & ":"
-- we return volumename, if we are given volumename
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tids
return theParentFolder
end parentfolder
script storage
property cachespath : ((path to library folder from user domain as text) & "caches:" & "net.mcusr." & scripttitle)
on scriptCache()
local script_cache
try
set script_cache to load script alias (my cachespath)
on error
script newScriptCache
property DefaultLocation : (path to desktop folder as text)
# edit any of those with default values
end script
set script_cache to newScriptCache
end try
return script_cache
end scriptCache
to saveScriptCache(theCache)
store script theCache in my cachespath replacing yes
end saveScriptCache
to saveParenFolderInScriptCache(theFolderToSaveIn, script_cache)
local containingFolder
set containingFolder to (parentfolder of saveTabsInSafariWindowsToFolder for theFolderToSaveIn) & "/"
local theLoc
set theLoc to POSIX file containingFolder as alias
set DefaultLocation of script_cache to theLoc
my saveScriptCache(script_cache)
end saveParenFolderInScriptCache
end script
end script
tell saveTabsInSafariWindowsToFolder to run
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