Help with a script

[Memyself]

I need help in creating a script that renames my pictures according to the following diagram:
download/file.php?mode=view&id=14821

Thank you

[highend]

from a dropdown menu of selected names

?

[Memyself]

This is group of 15 to 20 names that remain unchanged when the script is applied to the jpgs of a different folder.

[highend]

I don't get it. Maybe someone else does...

[eil]

he needs a script to rename images in folder by pattern:
[folder name]*space*name_picked_from_list
*name_picked_from_list =list of 15-20 strict specified names, kinda like tags. each cycle of script asks to pick one of names from list, for image currently under rename.

[highend]

No, what I was wondering about is:

This is group of 15 to 20 names that remain unchanged

Ofc they are not changed, only items in the destination folder are to be renamed...

If this is not what you wanted, I'm out.

Code: Select all

    end (<get countselected> == 0), "No item(s) selected, aborted!";

    $dstFolder = inputfolder(, "Choose folder where the .jpg(s) reside");
    $jpgFiles  = listfolder($dstFolder, "*.jpg", 1+4, <crlf>);
    end (!$jpgFiles), "No .jpg file(s) found in destination folder, aborted!";

    $menu = regexreplace(<get SelectedItemsNames <crlf>>, "^(.+?)(\.[^.]+?)(?=\r?\n|$)", "$1");

    foreach($jpgFile, $jpgFiles, <crlf>, "e") {
        $tmpMenu = "Suffix for $jpgFile<crlf>-<crlf>" . $menu;
        $suffix  = popupmenu($tmpMenu, 6:=<crlf>, 7:="|");
        if (strpos($suffix, "suffix for") != -1) { continue; }
        $prefix  = gettoken($dstFolder, -1, "\");
        renameitem("$prefix $suffix", $jpgFile, 1, "-01");
    }

[Memyself]

Thank you for your reply.

Sorry my ignorance, but what type of file is SelectedItemsNames? Is it a text file that I have to create in the same folder where the jpgs' to be renamed are located? Is it a db file?

[eil]

Thank you for your reply.

Sorry my ignorance, but what type of file is SelectedItemsNames? Is it a text file that I have to create in the same folder where the jpgs' to be renamed are located? Is it a db file?

it's a command that gathers names of all selected files.

[Memyself]

I am assuming the names I want to use to rename the jpgs are contained in a txt or db file in the same folder where the jpgs' are located. My question was: which type of file shall the names be stored in, so as to be picked up by the SelectedItemsNames command ?

[highend]

Selected names^^

You select the files you want to use as names for the .jpgs (in a different folder) and then you start the script...

[Memyself]

Thank you. The script works as per my functional diagram.

However, my objective was not totally reflected in it. A minor variation I would like to introduce is the possibility of skipping renaming of some of the jpgs when the script runs through them. Is it possible to achieve it by a small modification of the script?

[highend]

Not with a popup menu...

This would work with skipped files:

Code: Select all

    end (<get countselected> == 0), "No item(s) selected, aborted!";

    $dstFolder = inputfolder(, "Choose folder where the .jpg(s) reside");
    $prefix    = gettoken($dstFolder, -1, "\");
    $jpgFiles  = listfolder($dstFolder, "*.jpg", 1+4, <crlf>);
    end (!$jpgFiles), "No .jpg file(s) found in destination folder, aborted!";

    $menu = regexreplace(<get SelectedItemsNames <crlf>>, "^(.+?)(\.[^.]+?)(?=\r?\n|$)", "$1");

    foreach($jpgFile, $jpgFiles, <crlf>, "e") {
        $suffix = inputselect("Suffix for $jpgFile", $menu, <crlf>, 4+32+4096+8192+16384, "not_named", 400, 600);
        if ($suffix LikeI "not_named") { continue; }
        renameitem("$prefix $suffix", $dstFolder . "\" . $jpgFile, 1, "-01");
    }

[Memyself]

Script execution error.

The script is interrupted in line 4

[highend]

Copy the script a second time and do it again

[Memyself]

Wow, it works. Thank you very much, it will save me tons of time.