What I’m working on is pretty convoluted. Let me throw it out there quick first:
Any way to turn an Apple Event FURL (ie file URL I think) into just a string, when that file doesn’t exist yet?
OK So now the setup: I have been tasked with making a script for InDesign. This script is an “Event Listener” which fires automatically when certain application events occur, such as opening, saving, closing a document, or placing a graphic etc. The one I am working with is “beforeSave”. I need to watch to see if a user is trying to save a file to their desktop, and if so, then that action will not be allowed.
So far my script can detect the save or save-as event (very important point about save-as soon). If the document was already saved, then it has a location. If it was a new document, then there is no “current location” ie file path of the document yet. Or, if the user is doing a save-as to a new location, then the old location becomes moot. And so I need to some how trap the new location they are going to try to save to.
My script can catch the event that happens between the user pressing “save” button in the save-as dialog, and continuing with the script. I have an Apple Event that I can log, and the event contains the new location they are going to save to: ‘fnam’:‘furl’(“file://localhost/Users/chris.paveglio/Desktop/Untitled-0.indd”)
But, I can’t seem to get this location as a string or something usable after this point. I can log it into the console (using Shane’s ASOCObjCRunner app). But I really really need to get it as a string and then see if “Desktop” is in the location, and if so, then throw up a dialog telling the user the action isn’t allowed (or to continue anyways). It logs as what looks like text but I can’t actually convert it in code. I’ve been trying to use stringValue() and stuff from NSApleEventDescriptors to no luck so far.
It’s also PM on Friday so maybe I’m done for the day.
Here’s what I have so far. It needs to be set up as an Event Listener in ID, you can’t run it by itself.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
make event listener with properties {event type:"beforeSave", handler:"PREPCTRL-10:Users:chris.paveglio:Desktop:BeforeSave.scpt"}
--before saving test script
script logStuff
set AEObject to current application's NSApp's passedValue()
tell me to log AEObject
tell me to log AEObject's numberOfItems()
set OneAEObj to AEObject's descriptorAtIndex_(4)
tell me to log OneAEObj
-->logs <NSAppleEventDescriptor: 'furl'("file://localhost/Users/name/Desktop/foobar.indd")>
tell me to log OneAEObj's stringValue()
-->logs file path if file exists already, otherwise (null)
tell application "Finder"
set finderText to OneAEObj as string
-->if doing save-as and file doesn't exist:
-->"can't make <class ocid> id <data kptr0001324541> int type string. etc etc -1700
-->file doesn't exist, yeah we know, gimme the future location anyways!
end tell
tell me to log "finderText= " & finderText
end script
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
if class of (parent of evt) is document then
set docName to name of parent of evt
try
set docFilePath to ((file path of parent of evt) & docName) as string
on error
--can't get, or it's a blank/new document
return
end try
--well we can display anything we want
--but the SAVE STILL HAPPENS NO MATTER WHAT YOU CLICK
--UNLESS you ***tell the evt to prevent default***
--And this dialog isn't shown until
--after the Save panel of a Save-As or Save-Copy dialog
set theProps to (get properties of evt)
tell application "ASObjC Runner" to run the script {logStuff} passing theProps
if docFilePath contains "Desktop" then
beep
display dialog "Don't save to your Desktop, or the Boogey Man will eat your artist points." with icon 0 with title "Warning" buttons {"Stop", "Save Anyways"} default button 1
--don't use cancel or the script ends before getting to the next statement, duh
if button returned of result is "Stop" then
tell evt to prevent default
end if
end if
end if
end tell
