On 2009-10-11 12:39 , John Francis wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:25:25PM +1300, David Mann wrote:
Works well but I can't drag& drop onto its icon. Not a big issue, I
can just open a terminal.
[...]
Maybe one of the resident mac experts can suggest something?
to begin with note that most of the same information (except the actual
lens name and the ISO setting) is available from a simple Get Info
(command-i) on the Mac
anyhow, to get a command-line tool to do drag & drop, one can use a few
lines of AppleScript as a wrapper; rather than hard-code the location of
the ScanTags executable into the script, i assume ScanTags has been
embedded into the application package; instructions to assemble this
AppleScript/ScanTags package follow
(John, i can send you a zip of this all assembled if you'd like to host it)
save the script:
- launch Script Editor, an empty "Untitled" window should open
- paste the script lines below into the window
- choose Save from the File menu
- under File format choose "Application bundle"
- enter a name, e.g. macScanTags, and save it somewhere
embed ScanTags:
- find the macScanTags application you saved in Finder
- right- or control-click on the file and choose "Show Package Contents"
- a new window will open up with a directory that contains a
subdirectory "Contents", open that directory and open its subdirectory
"Resources"
- place the ScanTags executable file into Resources
- close the Finder window
- try dragging an image file (or files) on the macScanTags application file
here's the script (any line that's not indented is overflow, and should
be merged with the previous line):
on open (some_files) -- if launched by dropping file(s)
set app_path to quoted form of POSIX path of (path to me)
-- path to ScanTags embedded in application bundle
set tool_path to app_path & "Contents/Resources/ScanTags "
-- clean up command line output
set output_filter to " | grep \"^ \""
repeat with a_file in some_files
set the_path to quoted form of POSIX path of a_file
set the_cmd to tool_path & the_path & output_filter
set the_info to do shell script the_cmd
display dialog (a_file as text) & return & return & the_info
end repeat
end open
on run -- if launched without dropping file(s)
choose file with prompt "choose image file(s)" with multiple
selections allowed
open (the result as list)
end run
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