[mphilip]

I'm new to applescript and I need some help

what I plan to do is make an app. for image conversion.

steps the app will take:

- file will be dropped on script
- app. will take file (with variable name) and send it to the terminal
- a conversion application will be launched by the terminal imputing
the file name of the file dropped on the script
- this will run and output a file to the /user dir
- the script will now move that file back to the dir where the script
is located

the command I use in the terminal now to covert an image
"mattphilip$ /Applications/Autodesk/maya8.5/Maya.app/Contents/bin/imf_copy -v -p -L /giantskined1001+R32.tif giantnew.map"

the image converter is packaged with a program called maya and is
called IMF_copy

(giantskined1001+R32.tif giantnew.map) are just names of images this would be based on the file dropped on the script

any help or a starting point would be awesome

thanks

Matt

[SirCastor]

I'm not all up to date on my Applescript, but I think you'd do something like this:

// item is the file dropped onto the app.

on open item
do shell script /Applications/Autodesk/maya8.5/Maya.app/Contents/bin/imf_copy -v -p -L item
end open

I think that'd work anyway, you'll probably have to mess around with it a bit, and maybe do some work on the name/file output.