In article <[email protected]>,
the Shelter <[email protected]> wrote:
> droplets are little mac apps that get triggered by dragging and dropping a
> file on them.
> In my case there exists such a droplet app that creates txt output I need to
> infterface w/.
> So I wanna trigger the process of a file being dropped on the app so I get
> the txt output that is written to a folder, i.e. take the file and fire it
> off to the app ...
>
>
> And yes: I meant ApleScript, not Appletalk :-)
>
> Since my main application that wants to get the txt file: yes, I'd prefer a
> python approach to this.
If I understand correctly, you want to programatically emulate the
action of dropping a file onto a droplet app. If so, probably the
easiest way to do it is to use the OS X open command from the command
line, so somthing like:
$ open -a "/path/to/applet.app" "file-to-drop"
If that works, you can easily call that from within a python program by
using the old standby: os.system('open -a ...') or, if you need more
control, subprocess.Popen(...).
--
Ned Deily,
[email protected]
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