On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:21:41AM +0200, captnswing wrote: > if (can export movie 1 as DV stream) is true then > try > with timeout of 360 seconds > export movie 1 to POSIX file the_newname as DV stream > using settings the_settings with replacing > end timeout > on error errorMsg number errNo > ... > end try > end if > ================================================= > > can export? with timeout? not sure how to do this in appscript...
Generally you replace multi-word commands in AppleScript with "word1_word2_..." in appscript. In [6]: qt.help('-o') [...] Commands: can_export [...] In [7]: qt.can_export.help() ================================================================================ Appscript Help (-t) Reference: app(u'/Applications/QuickTime Player.app').can_export -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description of reference Terminology for can_export command Command: can_export(...) -- Determine if a movie or track can be exported to the desired type Reference -- the movie or track to export as=k.AIFF | k.AVI | k.BMP | k.DV_stream | k.Fast_Start_QTVR_Movie | k.FLC | k.hinted_movie | k.image_sequence | k.interframe_compressed_VR_object_movie | k.MuLaw | k.MPEG2 | k.MPEG4 | k.picture | k.QuickTime_media_link | k.QuickTime_movie | k.QuickTime_TeXML | k.standard_MIDI | k.System_7_sound | k.text_file | k.ThreeGPP | k.wave -- the desired file type Result: Boolean -- is the export supported ================================================================================ In [8]: qt.can_export(qt.movies[1], as=k.DV_stream) Out[8]: True Timeout is a keyword argument to all commands, so you'd do something like: In [40]: qt.export(qt.movies[1], to='i:Users:nicholas:Desktop:foo.dv', as=k.DV_stream, replacing=True, timeout=360) and you'd get back a CommandError exception if the event timed out. > also the following: > > > ================================================= > --get number of tracks and kind of movie > tell application "QuickTime Player" > activate > open the_file > tell movie file_name > set track_count to the count of tracks > set track_kind to the kind of track 1 > end tell > end tell > > --if movie is muxed mpeg > if (track_count is equal to 1) and (track_kind contains "Muxed") then > ..... > ================================================= > > > it is unclear to me how to get to the track_kind property of a movie > are not all properties and functions mapped over to appscript? In [14]: len(qt.movies[1].tracks()) Out[14]: 2 In [15]: qt.movies[1].tracks[1].kind() Out[15]: u'Sound' I think there are some things that appscript still doesn't do, but I haven't ever run into them. > also I wonder how you can tell which appscript command takes what > parameters. > I remember the Quark Express discussion a while ago where there was a > astype parameter to the get command: pw.get(astype=k.Char) You can either generate HTML documentation or interactively probe the terminology with appscript; see: <http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscripthelpsystem.html> > and finally, what does the k. in the documentation (and the above get > () call) stand for? "keyword", I think. -- Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley> _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig