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Mar 17, 2006, 10:40 PM
 
im not sure if this is the right forum or not, but i'll soon find out..

what is a droplet and what are they used for?? is it something different than a contextual menu? i've been playing around with automator and applescript and dont understand the "save as droplet" option....

thanks for helping the bleating llama
     
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Mar 18, 2006, 02:11 AM
 
A Droplet is an AppleScript app (or now Automator, also) that launches when an item is dropped onto it's icon in the Finder. It then does it's thing to said item and promises to give it a call.
     
   
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