Hi Bob,

I don't remember but I do know you can take the original name apart and add your own name to it.

This is not real code syntax but shows the idea:

put (name of folder) into myfolderVar
fix the directory to this one
load the directory  files into mydirVar
now you have name of folder and list of files
now
repeat with x = 1 to num lines of mydirVar
delete char 1 to ? of line x of mydirVar
put "Image"& x  before line x of mydirVar
end repeat
now you have a new name for each image based on the number of lines.

you could put the num lines into a global and add to that for the x naming
or you could put a time or special name to each image


Or in your case
you might just want to use the same name and the "if there is a" to check the file already exists and if so add a 1 to it and if that exists than add a 2 etc. this is a lot less coding and then you can ignore all of the other issues.
1raw***.pic
2raw***.pic
etc.
or add the long time before each with no punctuation in it
31801raw***.pic


OR even better
set the twelveHourTime to false
put the dateTime into mytime
set the twelveHourTime to true

put mytime before line x of myDirVar

now each item should??? be different

There may be an even better way???

Tom

On Jan 8, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Bob Hartley wrote:

At 16:58 08/01/2004, you wrote:

Hi tom

I'll have a look at rev for the code and learn how this one works

from first impression it looks like your script will name the images sequentially.

I need it to retain the directory name in the file name.

I now remember that I saw a script that had something like replace "raw" with \name. OK I'm lost here but I hope you get the meaning. It may also have been replace with characters between \&\.

Does that ring a bell?

I'm not with it today. :-)

Cheers
Bob in the lab
I do this in my preOpenCard.
I get the default directory then put my own path into it - afterwards I put the default back.
I then get a list of the available images.
I then replace parts I need and sort the field and then put back parts. But you could do any kind of renaming with maybe a global that has the last name used so none over lap.
in preopencard
-snip-
put the directory into altdir
put defaultFolder & "/media/31i/" into the_path
set the directory to the_path
put the files into theimages
set the directory to altdir


if char 1 of line 1 of theimages = "." then delete line 1 of theimages -- .dsstore on mac
repeat with c = 1 to the number of lines in theimages
delete char 1 to 5 of line c of theimages
end repeat
sort lines of theimages numeric
repeat with c = 1 to the number of lines in theimages
put "Slide" before line c of theimages -- you could put anything here including another repeat with accumulating numbers
end repeat


-snip-


On Jan 8, 2004, at 9:37 AM, Bob Hartley wrote:


files bob_raw01.pic 02.pic and 03.pic. My app lists the files and allows me to transfer them. It works great.


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