Is it possible to get the name of the selected item on the desktop using the right mouse button (file and path)?
My plan and idea is to run a script with the selected file.
Example:
“mogrify -normalize $selectedfile"
or
"mogrify -rotate 90 $selectedfile”
Greetings Lelldorin
Sounds like a perfect use case for TrackerScript, a TrackerAddon that will run a customized script on the selected items.
It use attribute to specify the script command.
See the recent discussion about Font Install traker add-on:
I think this is what you want:
hey Tracker get Selection of Poses of Window 0
Again I feel I’m missing something, but what’s wrong with drag&drop? Doesn’t a YAB app accept files dropped on either its icon or an open window? That’s how I specify files for almost everything I do.
yab does that just fine, I have used it in the past and am using it in my WebViewer app.
The Tracker add-on CopyNameToClipboard seems to be what lelldorin is looking for.
No i want to use it diectly and not to use another app to get the name and path.
Right click/menu option:imagemagick/flip image for example
On an open window, yes. You need to specify a specific view as the dropzone and then just keep looking for the appropriate message$ code in your main loop.
On the icon … Don’t know, I’ve never tried that, but peek$(“refsreceived”) might pick that up.
I does not want to make a second Imagemagick gui. I only want to make it possible to do fast image manipulation using the context menu. Imagemagick use a dropzone to open images.
Is this the correct string? I will take a look.
Give a look at TrackerScript. Should be easy to duplicate it with different script command and call it “Flip image”.
Don’t forget to set accepted MIME type to image/*, though.
[code]#include <Clipboard.h>
#include <Entry.h>
#include <Path.h>
#include <String.h>
#include <TrackerAddon.h>
void process_refs(entry_ref dir_ref, BMessage *msg, void *) {
BString ClipString;
BPath path;
int refs;
entry_ref file_ref;
for( refs=0; msg->FindRef(“refs”, refs, &file_ref)==B_NO_ERROR; refs++) {
BEntry(&file_ref).GetPath(&path);
if (refs>0) ClipString.Append(" ");
BString FileString = filenameonly ? path.Leaf() : path.Path();
bool quote = (FileString.FindFirst(" ") != B_ERROR );
if (quote) ClipString.Append("\"").Append(FileString).Append("\"");
else ClipString.Append(FileString);
}
commandline = new BString("mogrify -flip "+BEntry);
[/code]
Will this be run?
How i can get the header files?
Using makefile-engine (copy skeleton Makefile from /boot/system/develop/etc/Makefile) it should be easy to build your code.
Some issues in your code: