That's a great idea. A droplet never even a occurred to me but it is
an excellent solution. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Don

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On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Christopher Stone
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 11, 2011, at 08:26, Don Southard wrote:
>> Not as quick drag-n-drop but a solution none the less. Any other thoughts?
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Hey Don,
>
> If you really want drag and drop you can create a script droplet and put it 
> in the Dock, on your Desktop, or in the Finder Toolbar.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> on run
>  beep
>  display dialog "This is a drag & drop application!"
> end run
>
> on open (fileList)
>  try
>
>    if length of fileList > 1 then
>      error "Only One Image Allowed!"
>    else
>      set imageFilePath to quoted form of (POSIX path of (item 1 of fileList))
>      set exifData to do shell script "exiftool " & imageFilePath
>
>      tell application "BBEdit"
>        activate
>        tell front text window
>          set text of selection to exifData
>        end tell
>      end tell
>
>    end if
>
>  on error errMsg number errNum
>    set sep to "=============================="
>    set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬
>      & "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep
>    beep
>    display dialog e
>  end try
> end open
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> * ExifTool is a command-line executable:
>    http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
>
> You can of course allow more than one image to be dragged.
>
> I have not done any file-type checking in this script.
>
> You could also change the run handler to allow clicking on the script in the 
> toolbar to act on the selected items in the Finder.
>
> There are many available options.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
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