Applescript, Clipboard, Libraries and Stand-alones

[Jim Ault]

Have you looked at Ken's listings of solutions and tips?

http://sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm

in the middle of the page,   file001, file002, etc

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 5/6/08 12:06 PM, "Thomas McGrath III" <3mcgrath at comcast.net> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> I was having all kinds of problems with the write to and read from
> file method, mostly path issues. Don't forget I have to have this work
> in AS, VB and in RR in order to be of use to me on both Mac and
> Windows platforms.
> 
> And, I was not getting RR to read the file correctly  from the hex
> data returned straight from the AS script.
> 
> Nothing else in my library writes to the users disk and I wanted to
> keep this consistent if I could.
> 
> So I looked into the clipboard info and found that AS and VB will
> convert the raw data into binary on the clipboard. So getting RR to
> just read the binary clipboard instead of the hex data seemed like the
> logical step. However paste was not working in RR correctly for me and
> after a while I thought maybe I was not copying correctly from AS. So,
> I looked up in the scripting additions library for clipboard where it
> does state:
> 
> set the clipboard to v : Place data on an application’s clipboard.
> Use inside a ‘tell’ block and activate the application first
> set the clipboard to any : the data to place on the clipboard
> 
> the clipboard v : Return the contents of an application’s clipboard.
> Use in a ‘tell’ block after activating the application
> the clipboard
> [as type class] : the type of data desired
> → any : the data
> 
> clipboard info v : Return information about the clipboard
> clipboard info
> [for type class] : restricts to information about only this data type
> → list of list : a list of {data type, size} for each type of data on
> the clipboard
> 
> ANYWAY, after playing around all day and getting frustrated I decided
> to go back to my script that just pasted on the clipboard (Finder?)
> and do it different this time from within RR instead. It now works
> consistently without a paste in RR, but rather a
> clipboardData["image"] instead:
> 
> Applescript: (This successfully puts the artwork converted to binary
> on the clipboard every time, <name> and <playlist> are replaced.)
> try
> tell application "iTunes"
> set myHasArtwork to the artworks of track "<name>" of playlist
> "<playlist>"
> if myHasArtwork is not "" then
> set myTrack to the (data of artwork 1 of track "<name>" of playlist
> "<playlist>") as picture
> set the clipboard to myTrack as picture
> return myTrack
> end if
> end tell
> end try
> 
> Then in Revolution:
> -- set up a correctly sized invisible image to store the data in and
> then use it's ID for my buttons and or other images
> 
> put the clipboardData["image"] into tTemp
> put tTemp into img "Template"
> put the id of img "Template" into theResult
> put "Image ID:" && theResult into field "Sample"
>      -- Now put the new image into a new sized and locked image or set
> up for the icon of a btn etc.
> put image id theResult into image "Album Artwork"
> 
> Well, after a long day, this is now working consistently and if I need
> to save the file I can now do it from within RR with a simple path
> instead of having to set up paths in AS and VB and RR.
> 
> Thank you for you help and suggestions,
> 
> Tom McGrath
> 
> On May 6, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> Did you see my last reply regarding your problem concerning PNGs?
>> 
>> I don't know where you got the instruction to activate an
>> application before setting the clipboard, but this seems like
>> nonsense to me. The clipboard usually works at system level. It
>> shouldn't be necessary to do this inside a tell block.
>> 
>> Can't you just have AppleScript return the data to Revolution and
>> use a Rev script to read the picture from the result, like you did
>> earlier?
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Mark
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