On Sep 27, 2014, at 15:32, Antonio Fortin wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 14:20, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 14:07, Antonio Fortin wrote:
>>
>>> The Hazel rule I have does exactly that. I’ve tried running the script on
>>> its own, specifying an actual PDF rather than `theFile` (see below), and
>>> nothing happened.
>>>
>>> `
>>> tell application "BibDesk"
>>> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
>>> tell front document
>>> set thePub to make new publication
>>> add "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" to thePub -- replace with path to your own
>>> PDF
>>> end tell
>>> end tell
>>> `
>>>
>>> —Antonio
>>>
>>
>> That's a string, not a file object. You need to convert it to a file. So
>> something like
>>
>> POSIX file "/MBA/Users/antonio/foo.pdf"
>>
>> or
>>
>> alias "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf"
>>
>> (file "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" should work in theory but does not work in
>> practice.)
>>
>> That does work for me.
>
> This *should* do it, right?
>
> `
> set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
> set newPDF to POSIX file of posixPath
set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
(leave out the "of")
> tell application "BibDesk"
> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
> tell front document
> set thePub to make new publication
> add newPDF to thePub
> end tell
> end tell
> `
>
> However, it doesn’t. Console shows a few BibDesk errors whenever I execute
> this script, but they have to do with MS Office and Spotlight. It looks like
> this is what’s causing the problem, but I have no idea how to go about fixing
> it.
>
That's strange. What errors? It seems their dictionary are messing up the
language. that is actually far too common with AppleScript (one reason why it's
such a failure of a language.) Though it should not do this here, as it's all
in a "tell application "BibDesk"" block. Perhaps there are scripting extensions
in your ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions from those apps?
Christiaan
> Oh well, I’ll keep looking. Thanks for your help, Christiaan. If you have any
> ideas on how to fix this problem, I’d love to hear them.
>
> —Antonio
>
>
>>> On 27 Sep 2014, at 13:52, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course this script won't do anything by itself. It is not complete, it
>>>> is just a fragment for the relevant part related to BibDesk. You have to
>>>> somehow pass the file to the script. I don't know if and how Hazel can do
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> Christiaan
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 13:06, Antonio Fortin 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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