Change the amount of colours in the colour space and travel through the spectrum.
Change the amount of colours in the colour space and travel through the spectrum.
NOTE: I took this project on myself and was not asked by Aberystwyth University to work on it. Aberystwyth university (at the time of writing this) has had no involvement in this project. Nor do they have anything todo with the views in this post or this post in general.
Working with Hari’s little website can be slow some times with having to manually resize, rename and upload each file individually. So I decided the best route to take would be an Automator Workflow, nice and easy, so I thought.
Well, it turns out Automators default ‘Rename Files’ Action cannot accept a variable as an option to rename a file (EH?), I then went on the hunt for an alternative rename Action …. and failed. All the options gave me the same error.
In comes Applescript, a slightly less pretty option but it worked.
The solution I found was here but I tweaked it ever so slightly so it worked to my liking, here is what I got.
on run {input, parameters}
-- here the input is a reference to the file passed from the previous action
set input to item 1 of input
set defaultName to makeNewName()
display dialog "Rename File To:" default answer defaultName buttons {"Rename", "Cancel"} default button "Rename" with icon note
set newName to text returned of the result
tell application "Finder"
set ext to name extension of input
set name of input to newName & "." & ext
end tell
return input
end run
to makeNewName()
set root to "New Picture"
set {year:y, month:m, day:d, time:t} to current date
return root & " " & y & "-" & m * 1 & "-" & d & "_" & t
end makeNewName
I’ve just open sourced a small project of mine called Hari. It’s a Content Management System with no database, so could be handy for people who don’t have database access or dont need a fully fledged CMS.
You can find the source code on https://github.com/matthojo/Hari