I know this is probably obvious but...

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

I have two functions (browseForMovie_ and browseForOutputFolder_) which are supposed to do exactly what they are called (browse for a movie, and get an output folder). But, I need it to give me the POSIX path to actually pass it off to ffmpeg. currently, both functions are as follows:


	on browseForMovie_(sender)
		set thePath to (choose file with prompt "Please select a movie for encoding:" without invisibles of type {"mov"})
        log(thePath as string)
		setMoviePath_(thePath as string)
	end browseForMovie_



	on browseForOutputFolder_(sender)
        set theOutPath to (choose folder with prompt "Please select an output folder:" without invisibles)
        log(theOutPath as string)
		set OutputPath to (theOutPath as string)
		setMoviePath_(theOutPath as string)
	end browseForOutputFolder_

any way to convert both to POSIX paths easily?

#2

Hi,

choose file returns an alias specifier, which has a POSIX path property


set thePath to POSIX path of (choose file with prompt "Please select a movie for encoding:" without invisibles of type {"mov"})
#3

Thanks Stefan! One more thing though. Now it’s saying “Can’t make POSIX path of missing value into type string.” Any ideas?

#4

Normally choose file returns an alias specifier or throws error -128 in case the user presses Cancel

Maybe the command behaves different in Xcode/ASOC

#5

Any way I can fix this? Thanks for all your help again.

Edit: I’m going to include the processMovie function… Hopefully this’ll help.


    on processMovie_(sender)
        set bundlePath to current application's NSBundle's mainBundle's resourcePath() as string
        set ffPath to (bundlePath as text) & "/binaries/ffmpeg "
        set theMovie to POSIX path of MoviePath as string
        set theOutputFolder to POSIX path of theOutPath as string
        set the finalExtension to (popupPOP's titleOfSelectedItem()) as string
        if theMovie = "" then display dialog "theMovie is required."
	if theOutPath = "" then display dialog "theOutPath is undefined."
        
        if the finalExtension is "mp3" then
            --display dialog "mp3 has been selected... let's see what we can do."
            log do shell script ffPath & quoted form of "-i " & theMovie & quoted form of "-ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 -vn" & theOutPath & quoted form of "test.mp3"
        else if finalExtension is "Item 2" then
            display dialog "Item 2 has been selected"
        else if finalExtension is "Item 3" then
            display dialog "Item 3 has been selected"
        end if
	end processMovie_
#6

use the Cocoa way


        set openPanel to current application's NSOpenPanel's openPanel()
        openPanel's setAllowedFileTypes_({"mov"})
        set panelResult to openPanel's runModal()
        if (panelResult is current application's NSOKButton) then
            set thePath to openPanel's URLs()'s objectAtIndex_(0)'s |path|()
            log thePath
        else
            -- do error handling
        end if
#7

Thanks for that, but I believe the problem is within the function I edited above. Can you please review my code, I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it.

#8

Wrap it in a try block.

#9

no output, just the same errors through the console

#10

Back in your first post, you’re using setMoviePath_ in both handlers. That doesn’t make sense to me…