<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you for your quick answer. <div>You made few interesting points!<div> - the "$" acts as a warning for me to re-assign a specific (client) name to the document. not a brilliant idea, which I will change</div><div> - the "try/on" spilt is more to do with my lack of knowledge on Applescript: I have just adapted one found on a forum. <div> </div><div>I am having difficulties implementing your suggestions, not having enough knowledge of the Applescript syntax; I mainly do html and css coding, and have adapted a script to my needs.</div><div> </div><div>Would you mind to clarify or correct directly the full script below?</div><div>It would be much appreciated...</div><div> </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; text-align: justify; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">set theFolder to choose folder with prompt "Create/Choose Client Project folder"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">try</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set briefFolder to ((theFolder as text) & "Brief") as alias</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">on error</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> tell application "Finder" </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 57.6px; text-indent: -57.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; "> set briefFolder to (POSIX path of briefFolder) & "x.tasks"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 57.6px; text-indent: -57.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; "> do shell script ("touch " & briefDoc & " ;mate " & briefDoc)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28.8px; text-indent: -28.9px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; ">end try</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 28.8px; text-indent: -28.9px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; ">tell application "Finder"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set capturesFolder to make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:"Captures"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set processedFolder to make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:"Processed"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set HiResFolder to make new folder at processedFolder with properties {name:"High-Res Images"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set LoResFolder to make new folder at processedFolder with properties {name:"Low-Res Images"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 56px; text-indent: -56.1px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set trashFolder to make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:"Trash"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">end tell</div></blockquote> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; text-align: justify; ">PS: what are the details of your book?</div></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div><div>cheers, Pascal</div></div><div> </div></div> </div> <div><div>On 18/03/2008, at 11:26 AM, Dr. Drang wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:32 PM, pascal@g <<a href="mailto:ymostudio@gmail.com">ymostudio@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the principle of the script was to create folders and sub-folders, then </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">create a new document in one of them with my text editor, save it with a </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">title, bringing it to the front for entry. </blockquote> If you delete everything after the 'tell application "Finder"' clause and insert set briefDoc to (POSIX path of briefFolder) & "$.tasks" do shell script ("touch " & briefDoc & "; mate " & briefDoc) it should do what you want. I have to say that the use of a dollar sign as a file name scares me a bit because it's a special character in the shell, but with this change the script worked for me. (I am curious why the creation of the Captures folder isn't put into a 'try/on error' block like the creation of the Briefs folder, but I'm sure you have your reasons.) <blockquote type="cite">I have posted an entry on MacScripter, to hear that TextMate was "poorly </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">scriptable, even Standard Suite is badly implemented". </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">any solution to contradict that?! </blockquote> TextMate is certainly not as AppleScriptable as BBEdit, but it is far more scriptable with Perl, Python, Ruby, and the shell. In my book, this is a big win for TextMate and the reason I switched a couple of years ago. -- Dr. Drang ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div> </div></div></div></body></html>