BASICS
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application">Reveal
information about an Applescript object by asking for its
properties.
tell
application
"Aperture"
get properties
end
tell
Of course the available properties for an object can also be found in the application's AppleScript dictionary as well.
Below are three very basic scripts that give you an idea how to create projects, folders, and albums. New to Aperture 2.0 is the ability to create subfolders (aka yellow folders). Use the examples below as well as the AppleScript dictionary to figure out how to create subfolders.
Create
Projects.
tell
application
"Aperture"
tell library
1
make new project
with
properties {name:"new_project"}
end
tell
end
tell
Create
Folders.
tell
application
"Aperture"
tell library
1
make new folder
with
properties {name:"new_folder"}
end
tell
end
tell
Create
albums (only the ordinary albums, not the more specialized albums
such as the light table).
tell
application
"Aperture"
tell library
1
make new album
with
properties {name:"new_album"}
end
tell
end
tell
Say you want to get the names of all of your projects or maybe the names of all of your images within a particular project.
Get
the name of every project.
tell
application
"Aperture"
tell library
1
get name
of
every project
end
tell
end
tell
Rather than process every image version within a project, you may want to process only those selected in a project. Using the selection property of the application class, you can obtain a list of currently selected image versions. Be sure to refer to Aperture's AppleScript Dictionary for more information.
Get
a list of selected image versions.
tell
application
"Aperture"
set imageSel
to selection
end
tell