Applescript Hack

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1996

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 10022
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texte = Howdy- I've been trying to bang my FoxPro databases into shape for WebCatalog for a while now, and finally I broke down and just hacked out a converter program in AppleScript. It will take a tab-delimited text database in any form, and through a series of dialogue boxes, convert the database to the webcatalog format. It creates the 'sku' field itself, and reserves 'int5' for holding the database 'number' so multiple databases can be served by WebCatalog. It's also set up so that if you drag multiple files onto its icon, it will combine them all into a single WebCatalog file. It's rough, it's a hack, and it ain't pretty. But it works. I'm using a customized version of it which remembers the field remapping for different database types so I don't have to type it in every time I convert my database. Most of you are probably FoxPro whizzes and don't need this; I'm just giving it out so that if anyone else is in my situation, they can use it.Here's where to get it: http://elroy.nmsu.edu/cc/webcatalog.html (You'll also need the 'Script Tools' scripting addition to make it work; there's a link to a place you can download it from off of this page.) Hope this can help someone... C.C. Chamberlin NMSU Agricultural Communications+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+| ^^ Two guys walk into | CC Chamberlin, Multimedia Specialist || ___OO_ / a bar, which is real| Agricultural Communications, NMSU ||- \ funny 'cause if one +--------------------------------------+| `-v-v-v guy walks into it |There are things which seem like || | you'd think the | miracles to men who have not studied || `^-^-^-^\ other guy'd see it.| Mathematics. -Archimedes- |+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+| Hey, my opinions are my own, not those of my employers, ok? Sheesh! |+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Applescript Hack (CC 1996)

Howdy- I've been trying to bang my FoxPro databases into shape for WebCatalog for a while now, and finally I broke down and just hacked out a converter program in AppleScript. It will take a tab-delimited text database in any form, and through a series of dialogue boxes, convert the database to the webcatalog format. It creates the 'sku' field itself, and reserves 'int5' for holding the database 'number' so multiple databases can be served by WebCatalog. It's also set up so that if you drag multiple files onto its icon, it will combine them all into a single WebCatalog file. It's rough, it's a hack, and it ain't pretty. But it works. I'm using a customized version of it which remembers the field remapping for different database types so I don't have to type it in every time I convert my database. Most of you are probably FoxPro whizzes and don't need this; I'm just giving it out so that if anyone else is in my situation, they can use it.Here's where to get it: http://elroy.nmsu.edu/cc/webcatalog.html (You'll also need the 'Script Tools' scripting addition to make it work; there's a link to a place you can download it from off of this page.) Hope this can help someone... C.C. Chamberlin NMSU Agricultural Communications+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+| ^^ Two guys walk into | CC Chamberlin, Multimedia Specialist || ___OO_ / a bar, which is real| Agricultural Communications, NMSU ||- \ funny 'cause if one +--------------------------------------+| `-v-v-v guy walks into it |There are things which seem like || | you'd think the | miracles to men who have not studied || `^-^-^-^\ other guy'd see it.| Mathematics. -Archimedes- |+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------+| Hey, my opinions are my own, not those of my employers, ok? Sheesh! |+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ CC

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Applescript Hack

1996

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