I'm trying to create an AppleScript that uses afplay (as suggested here) to play a random sound file that's located in a directory within the same directory as the script.
folder
-- applescript.scpt
-- sounds
----- sound-x.aiff
I found this comment regarding relative paths to be potentially useful:
(POSIX path of (path to me))
However, I keep receiving errors when I try mashing it up with this approach for randomness...
set theNumber to 3
set theFiles to {}
repeat
set file_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to me))
tell application "Finder" to set aFile to (some file of file_path & "/sounds_dir") as text
if aFile is not in theFiles then
set end of theFiles to aFile
tell application "Finder" to open file aFile
do shell script ("afplay " & file_path & " > /dev/null 2>&1 &")
end if
if (count of theFiles) is equal to theNumber then exit repeat
end repeat
In a
script
,path to me
returns thepath
to thescript file
but we need itsparent path
to add asub path
.To compose the correct path, we can use the subroutine
composeFilePath(fileName
).The main action is in the repeat loop. I also added a
delay
so it's easier to test. Save the script before using sincepath to me
will return a wrong path when its unsaved.