This is just a quick thank you to Ken Ray, and also to Todd Geist for his added
note on this. I will get it going in my own environment soon. Being English, I
don't often use the word "awesome" but it seems an appropriate response in this
case.
Graham
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:25:28 -0600, Ken Ray <k...@sonsothunder.com> wrote:
[…]
> Here's what you do (I tested this):
>
> In Automator:
>
> 1) Start a new workflow and add two actions: "Ask for Photos" (this is in the
> 'Photos' category under 'Library' in the left column) and "New Text File"
> (this is in the 'Text' category).
> 2) For "Ask for Photos", you can either leave it alone or uncheck "Allow
> multiple selection" (if you don't want the user to do that).
> 3) For "New Text File", set these settings (the rest you can just leave as
> defaults):
> Save as: picturepath.txt
> Where: Documents [x] Replacing existing files
> 4) Save the workflow as an application (you can pick from the 'FIle Format'
> popup menu at the bottom of the 'save as' dialog) named "Choose Picture".
> NOTE: Save it to your desktop for now so the following LC script will work
> without modification.
>
> In LiveCode, create a button and put this script in it:
>
> on mouseUp
> ChoosePicture
> put the result
> end mouseUp
>
> on ChoosePicture
> put 30000 into tTimeout
> put specialFolderPath("documents") & "/picturepath.txt" into tPicPathFile
> put specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/Choose Picture.app" into tChoosePicApp
> if there is a file tPicPathFile then delete file tPicPathFile
> launch tChoosePicApp
> put the milliseconds into tMS
> put true into tTimedout
> repeat until ((the milliseconds - tMS) >= tTimeout)
> wait 100 milliseconds with messages
> if there is a file tPicPathFile then
> put url ("file:" & tPicPathFile) into tPicPath
> delete file tPicPathFile
> put false into tTimedOut
> exit repeat
> end if
> end repeat
> if not(tTimedOut) then
> if tPicPath = "" then return "Cancel"
> return tPicPath
> else
> return "timeout"
> end if
> end ChoosePicture
>
> Now click the button and test it out? you should get back in "the result"
> either the path to the selected picture, the word "Cancel" (if they chose to
> click the Cancel button), or the word "timeout" if for some reason it
> couldn't get the file that is supposed to be created by the Choose Picture
> app.
>
> A couple of caveats/notes:
>
> 1) AFAIK there's no way to call the "Ask for Photos" palette from AppleScript
> directly, so that's the reason for the Automator solution.
> 2) When the "Ask for Photos" palette is open, the Automator "gear" icon is
> shown in the Mac menu bar (although there's nothing the user can do with it).
> 3) Feel free to change the paths to where you want to write the file, how
> it's named, etc? you get the idea on how this works?
>
>
and Todd Geist also wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This way works too.
>
> First create the automate as Ken described and save it somewhere. In this
> case I saved it on y desktop.
> then in LC do the following
>
> get shell ("automator '/Users/todd/Desktop/test.workflow'")
>
> put value(line 2 of it)
>
>
> That should do it.
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