Hello.
This is a spinoff of a script for showing the differences among two applescripts, wether in script format or as applescript text.
Come to think of it, this is a little bit easier than dragging the files into the FileMerge tray. Therefore this.
-- The Idea and implementation and any faults is totally mine. © McUsr 2010 and put in the Public Domain.
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whatever you want to do with it without any further permission.
Except for the following: Selling the code as is, or removing copyright statmentents and the embedded link in the code (without the http:// part) from the code.
I don't require you to keep this whole novel, but you must keep the link which refers to where it was originally posted. And my copyright.
You must also state what you eventually have done with the original source. This obviously doesn't matter if you distribute AppleScript as read only. I do not require you to embed any properties helding copyright notice for the code when you distribute as read only.
Credit for having contributed to your product would in all cases be nice!
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property UnsuppIcon : a reference to file ((path to library folder from system domain as text) & "CoreServices:CoreTypes.bundle:Contents:Resources:Unsupported.icns")
on run
-- check if text wrangler of bbedit is installed.
tell application "Finder"
set theSel to (get selection)
set selCount to count theSel
if selCount is 2 then
set {fileA, fileB} to {item 1 of theSel, item 2 of theSel}
else
if selCount is greater than 3 then my errMsg()
if (count its windows) is 1 or selCount is 0 then my errMsg()
-- only the desktop window or no items in the selection, -we don't handle folders - yet?
set fileA to item 1 of theSel
if class of fileA is not document file then my errMsg()
set fw1 to a reference to its Finder window 1
tell its Finder window 2 to activate
set theSel to (get selection) -- of Finder window 1
set selCount to count theSel
if selCount ≠1 then my errMsg()
set fileB to item 1 of theSel
if class of fileB is not document file then my errMsg()
tell fw1 to activate
if contents of fileB is equal to contents of fileA then my errMsg()
end if
end tell
-- make the differences show up in text wrangler!
try
set myres to (do shell script "/usr/bin/twdiff --ignore-spaces " & quoted form of POSIX path of (fileA as alias) & " " & quoted form of POSIX path of (fileB as alias))
tell me
activate
display alert "the files are alike!"
end tell
on error e number n
tell application "TextWrangler"
activate
end tell
end try
end run
on errMsg()
beep
tell me
activate
display dialog "You need to select two and only two two different Text files in the frontmost Finder Window or one Text file in each of the two frontmost Finder windows in order to run this script.
" with title "TextFileDiff" buttons {"Ok"} default button 1 with icon UnsuppIcon
error number -128
end tell
end errMsg