{"id":483,"date":"2007-03-29T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.201\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-03-29T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:32:12","slug":"newhere-a-template-activation-applescript-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/29\/newhere-a-template-activation-applescript-app\/","title":{"rendered":"NewHere – A template activation AppleScript app"},"content":{"rendered":"

An AppleScript (app) to duplicate any file you’ve added to its list to the folder of the frontmost Finder window.
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\nAfter giving it a home, the way to use this app is to drag it into the Finder’s toolbar. Then you can simply click its icon to activate it whenever and where ever you are in the Finder.<\/p>\n

You can save any document of any type and select it using the “–Add new file…” option when prompted for a document to place. For example, you can set-up and save an Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, plain text, etc. document to use as a template with this script. Add it to the list (which is really just adding a duplicate of the template to a folder named “NewHere” in your Application Support folder), enter a name for the duplicate<\/em> that will be placed in the folder of the Finder’s frontmost window. Then, it will open. You can now choose that file whenever you run this script by selecting it from the list.<\/p>\n

Also includes the ability to clone the frontmost Finder window.<\/a><\/p>\n

This has not been tested extensively, so there may be some unexpected behavior if your list gets very big. Or there may not, I really don’t know. There are however issues of “Replacing”. This will not replace a file if you pick the same name as a file already in the folder you use it on without prompting!<\/strong> So please be aware of what you are doing because the older file will be opened as if it were new. I do plan to change this behavior, however. Someday…<\/p>\n

Download<\/a> – 20kB zip file<\/p>\n

Source of “main.scpt”:
\nproperty first_run_dialog : \"This is the first time you've run NewHere.<\/p>\n

Files added to the list are located in:
\n~\/Library\/Application Support\/NewHere\/<\/p>\n

Removing a file from this folder removes it from the list.\"
\nproperty choose_prompt : \"Choose a document to place here\"
\nproperty start_doc_list : {\"--Open templates folder\", \"--Add new file...\", \"--Clone Finder window\"} -- Do NOT alter the order of or remove these three items!
\nproperty save_prompt : \"Enter a name for the new file.\"<\/p>\n

tell application \"Finder\"
\n\tset app_sup to folder (path to application support from user domain)
\n\tif not (exists folder \"NewHere\" of app_sup) then
\n\t\tdisplay dialog first_run_dialog
\n\t\tmake new folder at app_sup with properties {name:\"NewHere\"}
\n\telse
\n\t\ttry
\n\t\t\tset doc_list to start_doc_list & (name of every file of folder \"NewHere\" of app_sup as list)
\n\t\tend try
\n\tend if
\n\tset my_file to choose from list doc_list with prompt choose_prompt
\n\tif result is not false then
\n\t\tset my_dest to (folder of the front window) as alias
\n\t\tset my_file to item 1 of my_file as string
\n\t\tif my_file is item 1 of doc_list then
\n\t\t\ttell application \"Finder\" to open folder \"NewHere\" of app_sup
\n\t\telse if my_file is item 2 of doc_list then
\n\t\t\tset new_file to choose file without invisibles
\n\t\t\tduplicate file new_file to folder \"NewHere\" of app_sup with replacing
\n\t\t\tset my_name to text returned of (display dialog save_prompt default answer (name of my_dest & \" \" & name of new_file as text))
\n\t\t\tmy do_it((name of new_file as text), my_name, my_dest)
\n\t\telse if my_file is item 3 of doc_list then
\n\t\t\ttell application \"Finder\"
\n\t\t\t\ttry
\n\t\t\t\t\tset this_folder to folder of window 1
\n\t\t\t\t\tmake new Finder window to this_folder
\n\t\t\t\tend try
\n\t\t\tend tell
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tset my_name to text returned of (display dialog save_prompt default answer (name of my_dest & \" \" & my_file))
\n\t\t\tmy do_it(my_file, my_name, my_dest)
\n\t\tend if
\n\telse
\n\t\tset doc_list to start_doc_list
\n\tend if
\nend tell<\/p>\n

on do_it(my_file, my_name, my_dest)
\n\tset my_dest to my_dest & my_name as text
\n\tset my_origin to (path to application support from user domain) & \"NewHere:\" & my_file as text
\n\tdo shell script \"cp \" & quoted form of (POSIX path of my_origin) & \" \" & quoted form of (POSIX path of my_dest)
\n\ttell application \"Finder\" to open my_dest as alias
\nend do_it<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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