Recently a user asked me how they could use Interarchy to edit files in two different applications. They knew that each extension can have its own editor (for example, .txt files can be edited with BBEdit and .css files can be edited with StyleMaster), but in this case they wanted to choose on the fly which editor they wanted, for example choosing BBEdit or TextMate depending on the particular action they wanted to perform.
AppleScript allows you to get the selected URL list in Interarchy and also to edit a list of URLs and specify the editor, so the solution is to create two AppleScripts, one for BBEdit and one for TextMate, and then assign them hot keys (perhaps using Keyboard Maestro). The AppleScript is:
tell application "Interarchy"
set sel to selection of window 1
set urls to {}
repeat with e in sel
set urls to urls & {url of e}
end repeat
ftpedit urls editor "R*ch"
end tell
BTW, do not let the ftp in “ftpedit” fool you, this will work with any protocol.
The editor code is the creator type of the application, “R*ch” for BBEdit and “TxMt” for TextMate. If you do not know the creator code for the application, you can look in the application‘s bundle, in the Contents folder, for the PkgInfo file, which consists of 8 characters, “APPL” (for Application) followed by the creator code.
You could, of course, create a single AppleScript which asked for the creator code, or provided a set of possible applications, or whatever. That is the beauty of AppleScript and scriptable applications - you can speed up your workflow by customizing to exactly how you work.
Posted Thursday, December 7, 2006. Permalink. 2 Comments.
There are some typos in your applescript code. Here is a working version for TextMate:
tell application "Interarchy"
set selected to selection of window 1
set urls to {}
repeat with myfile in selected
set urls to urls & url of myfile
end repeat
ftpedit urls editor "TxMt"
end tell
And for BBEdit:
tell application "Interarchy"
set selected to selection of window 1
set urls to {}
repeat with myfile in selected
set urls to urls & url of myfile
end repeat
ftpedit urls editor "R*ch"
end tell
Thanks.
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 02:48 AM by Bertrand Mansion.
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Thanks very much for the tip. Being a complete AppleScript newbie, I very much appreciate to see concrete examples of how Interarchy can be extended using just a few lines of code. Please post more :)
Posted Friday, December 8, 2006 12:57 AM by Bertrand Mansion.