I'm trying to drive some photoshop processes with Livecode.
The idea is small applescripts are easy, "bigger" file operations are
easier done in LiveCode.
2 problems
ONE: Apple script dies in LiveCode, but runs in Script Editor.app why?
tell Application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
do action "merge leaves" from "Merge Leaves"
end tell
works from Applescript Editor.app
I can also put this into a custom property
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
activate
do action "###Action###" from "###Set###"
end tell
and this in a button:
on mouseUp
put the uMergeLeavesAScript of this stack into tScript
replace "###Action###" with fld "Action Name" in tScript
replace "###Set###" with fld "Action Set" in tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
end mouseUp
If I test for my script with a "put" statement I get exactly what works
in Applescript Editor.app
tell Application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
do action "merge leaves" from "Merge Leaves"
end tell
But Adobe Photoshop is not activated.
If I add this to the script:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
activate
do action "###Action###" from "###Set###"
end tell
it still does not work
If I test just this:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
activate
end tell
it *does* work... so ... why does the applescript line
do action "merge leaves" from "Merge Leaves" when run from LiveCode
a) block the activation of photoshop b) thereby fail to run itself?
Any clues?
TWO: Run another program (via applescript) on a loop from inside LiveCode
then, once I do get it running, is it possible to have LiveCode run
another application on a loop? once you activate another program.. and
if the program takes many seconds to run the process, can LiveCode be
told to wait and when activity stop in Photoshop, to go open the next
two files?
on mouseUp
put the uMergeLeavesAScript of this stack into tScript
replace "###Action###" with fld "Action Name" in tScript
replace "###Set###" with fld "Action Set" in tScript
put fld "PhotoshopPath" into tPhotoShop
put fld "FileDirectory" into tFolder
set the defaultFolder to tFolder
put the files into tFileList
filter tFilelist with "*.JPG*"
launch (tFolder&"/"& line 1 of tFileList) with tPhotoShop
launch (tFolder&"/"& line 2 of tFileList) with tPhotoShop
do tScript as AppleScript
# put this in a loop to then go back and get the next set of files.
end mouseUp
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