On 6/21/07, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also, the clipboarddata in Rev does not reliably update when doing the switch to frontmost. In the past, I have written some Applescripts to take advantage the clipboard, and proved that it was unreliable. In fact, just proved it again yesterday for a different project.
I'll second that. Created an Automator app that worked with the clipboardData but even though the data successfully made it into Rev (If I used the menu Paste the data would end up in the field) there was no way I could do it with a script :-( Depending on your needs I was able to work around this. In my case I needed to open files that were in a format Rev could not understand so I needed a third party program to convert them. I then wanted to copy that to the clipboard, then in Rev put the data into a variable for further processing. As the clipboard was unreliable what I ended up doing was put the data into a file and then have Rev open the file. So the process was basically: Rev asked for the folder that contained the files that needed to be worked on. Rev went into a loop for each file x Rev asked an Automator app to run Automator asked third party app to open file x Automator asked third party app to convert file x Automator saved file x in a specified location with an unchanging name Rev Opened the file and did it's thing Rev closed the file Rev deleted the file Rev when back to the beginning of the loop In my case there were lots of large files and I needed the entire contents so a 1:1 ratio was best. In your case, if the clipboardData is small, maybe you could look at using AppleScript to append the data to a single file and then read the file with Rev at the end. Hope there's something there that might help skin your particular cat. It's obvious though that others have faced a similar dilemma and worked around it somehow. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
