Hi Greg,
This is another approach, and not completely automatic, but how about
creating an Automator workflow that checks for DTBs using the "Find
Finder Items" action? You can specify where to check (e.g. /Volumes)
and the Kind of file to check for and/or use the extension. Anything
you would put in an AppleScript can also be accommodated with a "Run
AppleScript" action. Distribute this with Olearira and have this
accessible as a Finder action similar to your move Workflow. In the
case of multiple discovered DTBs let the user select the one of
interest.
Just some thoughts about alternatives.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 1, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
YOu could set everything up by running a pkg file.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 1-Nov-08, at 8:59 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
One of my goals has been to have the MacOS detect a CD or USB pen
drive that has a digital talking book when mounted and then launch
Olearia. Similar to the way that the MacOS detects Audio CDs or
DVDs and launches the correct player.
I have worked up this solution but it seems like a hack to me. Is
there a better way of doing this? Below are the steps I used.
1. I wrote an AppleScript (inclosed) that will look for either
an ,opf file or a file named ncc.html
2. I created a symbolic link to /Volumes in my home directory
3. I activated folder actions on this link and attached the script
in step one to it.
Now whenever /Volumes changes, that is a CD or pen drive is
inserted, it will look for either a .opf (DAISY/NISO) or ncc.html
(DAISY2.02) file and if there is one at the root directory will
launch Olearia with that file.
The .opf files are preferred over ncc.html, that is to say if the
disk has both on the root level the ,opf file will be opened.
I could automate some of the steps above but others require the
user to interact with the Folder Action Setup application. As I
said this whole process strikes me as a hack and there must be a
better approved way of getting this done.
Greg Kearney
--APPLESCRIPT BELOW
(*
launch Olearia
This Folder Action handler is triggered whenever items are added to
the attached folder in this case /Volumes.
The script will attempt to find a file with the extention .opf or a
file named ncc.html and will open such files in Olearia.
Greg Kearney November 2008
*)
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
try
set unix_path to POSIX path of added_items
set opf to do shell script "ls " & unix_path & "*.opf"
say "Opening digital talking book"
set opf_path to (POSIX file opf)
tell application "Finder"
open opf_path
tell application "Olearia"
activate
end tell
end tell
on error
set ncc to do shell script "ls " & unix_path & "ncc.html"
say "Opening digital talking book"
set ncc_path to (POSIX file ncc)
tell application "Olearia"
activate
open ncc_path
end tell
end try
end adding folder items to
