applescript - repeat if exists document x

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Wed Mar 11 16:27:50 EDT 2009


Sims,

if exists document x then set z to z + 1 else exit repeat

Almost like in Revolution.

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On 11 mrt 2009, at 21:13, Jim Sims wrote:

> I'm trying to get a count of open photoshop image files. They do not  
> show up using terminal and lsof. Therefore I am undergoing an  
> exercise that always reinforces how much I like using Rev - using  
> applescript.   :-P
>
> The following result will tell me how many image files are open in  
> "Photoshop Elements 4.0"
> My problem is that it looks for a set number of times (30) and then  
> tells me the count.
>
> I would like to have it not perform the repeat with a set number (as  
> in 30) but to count until it knows that it got them all. IOW so it  
> quits repeating after a counter of N if there are N files open. Hope  
> I'm making sense here  :-/
>
> Any applescript Gurus out there?
>
>
> set z to 0
> set x to 0
> repeat 30 times
> 	tell application "Photoshop Elements 4.0"
> 		set x to x + 1
> 		if exists document x then set z to z + 1
> 		set counter to z
> 	end tell
> 	
> end repeat
> return counter
>
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