applescript to render nuke script in terminal

Question

I want to be able to drop a Nuke script on to an Applescript application and then for the Nuke script to start rendering in a terminal.

The script needs to get the file path of the dropped item, paste that in to a terminal window along with 'nuke -xi ' and then hit return. So far I have..

on open dropped_item
   get the POSIX path of dropped_item

and...

tell application "Terminal"
    if not (exists window 1) then reopen
    activate
end tell

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

This shouldn't be hard. Just design a good droplet format to handle the file. You want to convert the alias of a file selected to a the posix path to that file.

on run
    set this_item to choose file with prompt "Select nuke script to run."
    process_item(this_item)
end run

-- This droplet processes files dropped onto the applet 
on open these_items
    repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
        set this_item to item i of these_items
        process_item(this_item)
    end repeat
end open

-- this sub-routine processes files 
on process_item(this_item)
    set p to POSIX path of this_item
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "nuke -xi " & quoted form of p
    end tell
end process_item