At 12:03 +0100 10/13/03, Alan Fry wrote: >What I miss most is the MacPerl droplet, on which you could drop a file, extract the >path (into ARGV) and do something with the file. For instance I have a droplet to >decode Base64 -- drop and bingo there is the decoded file.
I do use AppleScript for that kind of thing. I'll try to find some samples for you. In the meantime check this out. It is a droplet to replace line ends in dropped files but ignore that and have a look at the source. <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/LineEnds/> <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/LineEnds/FixEndsFolder.sit> (52 kB) It's not perl but it does show a way to make AS droplets pass filenames and arguments to executable shell tools. You should also learn about "POSIX path of" and "quoted form of" commands in AS. > And similarly with more complicated issues like translating a 'pod' file to 'pdf'. Wasn't that corncob great? I changed the creator code of all .pm's to match, but all that is "repaired" in OS neXt.. >Can anybody cheer me up? -- Applescript syntax is like English spelling: Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
