What format does theFile come in? Is it really a file object? Or is it a
string? In the latter case you have to convert it to a file object.
Christiaan
On Sep 27, 2014, at 13:57, Antonio Fortin wrote:
> In Hazel, `theFile` is an AppleScript variable that’s used to refer to the
> file being processed. In this case, it’s the PDF that’s tagged with the
> `BibDesk` tag, which triggers the rule.
>
> —Antonio
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 13:50, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> How does that script know what theFile is?
>>
>> Please excuse brevity. Sent from pocket computer with tiny non-haptic
>> feedback keyboard.
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 7:06, Antonio Fortin <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christiaan,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for that. However, when I trigger the script in Hazel, the PDF
>>> in question doesn’t get added to BibDesk. I know that the rest of the rule
>>> is working, because it does other things (like remove the tag).
>>>
>>> I suspect I haven’t set it up correctly, however. I’ve attached a
>>> screenshot of the rule. Does it work for you, as it is?
>>>
>>> I’ll almost always want to import to an existing library when BibDesk is
>>> already running, so I’m not worrying about the conditional statement or
>>> activating BibDesk just yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Antonio
>>>
>>> <hazelBibDesk.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 Sep 2014, at 23:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 19:54, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 08:17, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> AppleScript could very well do this. But how to write that AppleScript
>>>>>> really depends on how you want to use it and what you want precisely to
>>>>>> do. Probably you need some AppleScript like the following (here I assume
>>>>>> theFile is the file you want to add):
>>>>>
>>>>> The same script would also work if you have BD set to open a particular
>>>>> .bib file at launch, right? That would allow the OP to append new PDFs to
>>>>> the same .bib database.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it should. Though if you want to apply this also in cases where
>>>> BibDesk should launch, then you probably also want to add an "activate"
>>>> command somewhere. And I can imagine there may be timing issues (i.e. it
>>>> checks for the count of documents before the initial file was launched),
>>>> though a quick test does seem to work.
>>>>
>>>> Christiaan
>>>>
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