Dropzone Forums — Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

Re: Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (busterpkeaton) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:35:32 +0000

John - That's great, thanks a lot for your help! You're going to save me hours of my time.
And it's really too much honor that you put me as the author ;-)

Re: Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (John) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:18:59 +0000

Yup, sorry for the delay. You had the right idea. I've filled in the blanks for you and the working script can be downloaded below:

http://aptonic.com/getdestination.php?n … e.dropzone

I've hosted it in the dropzone-user-scripts repository (https://github.com/aptonic/dropzone-user-scripts) so others can benefit from it also. Nice idea

Re: Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (busterpkeaton) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:36:54 +0000

Hi, I don't want to sound impatient, but would you please help me? I believe the script I'm looking for may be a) very useful for many people and b) very easy to program for a programmer. The API, which was advertised as "easy" on the mac app store, is in fact rather complicated for non-programmers, I'm afraid to say, and the documentation isn't much help either...

Re: Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (busterpkeaton) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:03:23 +0000

John - thanks for your reply.
My script does sound pretty similar to Move File and Copy File but yes, the name-asking is crucial.
I did check out the script, and I tried to adapt it to fit my needs; however, as I have no experience with Ruby and very little with programming in general, I got stuck pretty quickly. This is how far I got (please don't laugh):

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# Dropzone Destination Info
# Name: Rename & save to folder
# Description: Allows you to rename files and save them to a folder of your choice
# Handles: NSFilenamesPboardType
# Creator: Buster P. Keaton
# URL: http://www.notarealURI.com
# OptionsNIB: ChooseFolder

def dragged

output = `./CocoaDialog standard-inputbox --title "Rename File" --e --informative-text "Enter new name for this file (minus extension):"`

filename = output.split("\n")[1]
$dz.determinate(true)
$dz.begin("Copying file...")
Rsync.do_copy($items, ENV['EXTRA_PATH'], false)
$dz.finish("Copy Complete")
$dz.url(false)
end

def clicked
escaped_path = ENV['EXTRA_PATH'].gsub(/["`$\\]/){ |s| '\\' + s }
system("open \"#{escaped_path}\"")
end

I have no idea how I would be able to tell the program to use the inputted text as the new filename...
Help would be very welcome! This script is more or less the reason why I bought Dropzone, and it turns out to be much harder to fix than I thought.

Re: Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (John) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:36:48 +0000

This sounds pretty similar to the Move Files & Copy Files destinations that ship with Dropzone. Have you looked at those?

If the key element is needing to rename the files before moving/copying then this is certainly possible but will require some changes to these destinations. Right click on the Dropzone app bundle then do 'Show Package Contents' and navigate into Contents/Resources/Destination Scripts and have a look at the Move Files.dropzone destination in a text editor for a starting point.

Also, see the API documentation at http://aptonic.com/api

Action that asks for new name and saves to desktop?

null@example.com (busterpkeaton) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:37:25 +0000

I tried making an action that accepts dragged files, opens a dialog window asking for a new filename, and then saves them to a specified folder, but I utterly failed. Is this something that is at all possible with Dropzone?
Regards