I was notified last night that one of my Actions wasn’t showing up in the Edit > Actions dialog even through the action was active and running perfectly well. I suspect I’m doing something wrong with the info.plist entry for the Action as the CFBundleIdentifier entry was different from the name of the Action itself. I changed this so they both matched but still no luck. I’ve also looked at a number of bundle Actions and the values sometimes match and sometimes doesn’t.
Also should the plist contain references to all of the Actions within the bundle?
The info.plist may have nothing to do with the Action not showing up in the Edit > Actions dialog but can someone give me an indication of how this file should be structured?
Many thanks,
Tim.
I would love to know more about this as well. I have been making radar sets out of coconuts here, but the giant silver birds have not landed once!
Walter
On Feb 18, 2014, at 5:40 AM, Tim Plumb wrote:
The info.plist may have nothing to do with the Action not showing up in the Edit > Actions dialog but can someone give me an indication of how this file should be structured?
I’m sorry to have to bump this but can anyone shed any light on this please? I can create a sample Action that may or may not show up in the Edit > Actions dialog but if anyone has any thoughts on how the info.plist document functions then I’m all to happy to hear them.
Many thanks,
Tim.
On 18 Feb 2014, at 10:40, Tim Plumb wrote:
I was notified last night that one of my Actions wasn’t showing up in the Edit > Actions dialog even through the action was active and running perfectly well. I suspect I’m doing something wrong with the info.plist entry for the Action as the CFBundleIdentifier entry was different from the name of the Action itself. I changed this so they both matched but still no luck. I’ve also looked at a number of bundle Actions and the values sometimes match and sometimes doesn’t.
Also should the plist contain references to all of the Actions within the bundle?
The info.plist may have nothing to do with the Action not showing up in the Edit > Actions dialog but can someone give me an indication of how this file should be structured?
Thanks Stewart. I’ve an empty fwactionb bundle that I use as a template for most new Actions. Somehow that master must have got changed at some point and since the Action still appeared to work Ok I guess I never noticed.
Regards,
Tim.
On 20 Feb 2014, at 12:23, Stewart Fellows wrote:
There are two problems, neither of which are the contents of the plist file.
The plist file should be contained with the Contents directory, not alongside it
The .fwaction file itself should be contained within an Actions directory, so the path should be Contents > Resources > Actions > Stealth.fwaction
Thanks Stewart. I’ve an empty fwactionb bundle that I use as a template for most new Actions. Somehow that master must have got changed at some point and since the Action still appeared to work Ok I guess I never noticed.
I had to look quite carefully to work out what was wrong. It’s really easy to miss these things…
Hi David,
The file Stewart looked at wasn’t anything really. It was just a bare-bones framework for a bundle (fwactionb) Action. Here’s the file again; https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795566/test/stealth-test-action.zip
I called it Stealth simply because the Action managed to appear inside Freeway without getting detected by the all-seeing Edit > Actions dialog.
Regards,
Tim.
