Wayne Priestley

Here is the second AppleScript I’ve created.

It’s an image manipulation script that will resize an image to 200 pixels in length, keeping the hight in proportion.

How it works:

This file has been saved as a Application bundle Droplet.
You place this application on your desktop or within easy reach of where you work with your images.

The reason for this is that you must drag the image or images (this script has been written to process multiple images) onto the icon and the script will process the images and resize them for you all at once.

WARNING! This script WILL overwrite the images dropped onto it.

Best practice if you want to keep the original image’s would be to duplicate the them and place those duplicates onto the script droplet.

Please feel free to download the script.

You may change it, if you’re not comfortable doing that then mail me and I can modify it to convert images to a different size for you.

Resize to 200.zip

The first AppleScript I wrote was a script to open two finder windows at the same time on my Desktop.

I’ve called it Twin Finder and made a nice Icon for it.

I have one Finder window open my Home folder and the other open my Downloads folder.

The reason I am telling you this is that I’m putting the script I wrote here for you to download if you want it.

If you want to modify it in any way feel free, changing the size or position isn’t hard, just open in Script editor and do as you with.
You may want to change the folders that Finder opens….

If you’re not comfortable doing it yourself drop me a line and I will modify it for you and upload it to the site.

I would suggest that once you’ve run it and decide if you want to keep it or not to open finder, go to Your_name/Library/scripts/applications/finder and drag the icon to the top of your finder window, if you hold it there for a moment it will add its self so you can just click it and the script will run opening two Finder windows.

Please download the application.Twin_Finder.zip

Or get the Script to edit hereUsers_Documents_Finder copy.zip

A couple of weeks ago I took delivery of AppleScript 1-2-3 by Sal Soghoian.
This book is a over 1½”chick and it’s going to take a while to get through.

chapter 1 in the Apple site, It’s a good teaser and even after one chapter you’ll have written a script or two that are useful.

By the end of chapter one I had myself a nice little script for opening two Finder windows on my Desktop, one opens at my Downloads folder and the other at my Dropbox folder.

I spend a lot of time transferring files between these two folders so after writing the script I created a small icon in Pixelmator and added it to my script, I’ve now got the script saved as an application and have the icon in at the top of my Finder window for easy access..

My idea when I first got this book was to play along as I read on my Mac but I found that it just isn’t working for me.
I’ve decided to read through the book first, mostly on an evening and once I’ve read from front to back and got a good understanding of what’s going on I will play along on my Mac as I’m sure was the intention.

I will post a review of the book once I’ve come to the end of it and let you all know what I think.
So far it’s one of those books that you always want to get to the next chapter of because you just want to know what Sal will have you scripting next.

AppleScript is a powerful tool if you learn its full potential and this has to be the best book out there to do just that.