How To Make User Text Prompt

Hey Christian,
Thanks! I'll see what I can do with that prompt for the cue name.

What I need it to do is actually pretty simple:

1. Open a prompt and ask for the Cue Name to be pasted into each clip name (with an "OK" or "Cancel" button in case I click the wrong one
2. Click Menu Item "Rename..." in the "Clip" menu. (that's easy)
3. Delete the extra characters Pro Tools adds to the freshly recorded clip. Usually it's 3 characters ("A Orch_11" would need "_11" removed)
4. Paste the text from the prompt at the beginning of the file name and add a space. (For the above example "A Orch_11" would now be "Prompted Text A Orch")
5. Click OK UI element and repeat until the "Name" window disappears.

Now the above actions work with the script I have in KM until you start to make playlists of the stem tracks. 3 extra characters are added at the end (.01) and now need to be removed when I print a new mix version into the upped playlist, so at the moment I have a 2nd script and key command for Playlist 1 and beyond that just hits delete 3 more times. I'm sure this could be done more elegantly but the programming for SF to identify that you're in a new playlist feels beyond me.

I would be fine for now to just have the above steps in a Soundflow script where I can easily modify the number of text deletions to make other renamers until some sort of logic is scripted though I'm not even sure specifically what I would want soundflow to discover...

Also to note, anyone reading this thinking "why doesn't he just use the built in PT batch renamer", sadly it doesn't rename the file name for some reason so I'm resorting to continuing to use my scripts that were built before batch rename was a feature. Once Pro Tools adds the oh so simple check box "rename filename" to the batch renamer I won't need this script per se but for now, it is what it is.

Hey Phil!

That script is looking good! Here is my take on it taking into consideration the things you mentioned above.

• This script will prompt you for input with a dialog box that cancels silently if you press it.
• It will delete any number of characters from the last underscore onwards, so you don't have to have two different scripts!

sf.ui.proTools.appActivateMainWindow();

let clipName;
let newClipName;
let nameWin = sf.ui.proTools.windows.whoseTitle.is('Name').first;

// User input
const cueNumberAndTitle = sf.interaction.displayDialog({
    buttons: ['Ok', 'Cancel'],
    defaultButton: 'Ok',
    cancelButton: 'Cancel',
    prompt: 'Enter Cue Number, Title, Version, & Mix Version',
    defaultAnswer: '',
}).text;

sf.ui.proTools.menuClick({ menuPath: ["Clip", "Rename..."], });

nameWin.elementWaitFor();

// Rename clips
while (!sf.ui.proTools.getMenuItem('Clip', 'Rename...').isEnabled) {
    clipName = nameWin.invalidate().groups.whoseTitle.is('Name').first.textFields.first.value.value;
    newClipName = cueNumberAndTitle + ' ' + clipName.replace(/_(?!.*_).*|\.(?!.*\.).*/, '');

    nameWin.groups.whoseTitle.is('Name').first.textFields.first.elementSetTextFieldWithAreaValue({
        value: newClipName,
    });
    nameWin.buttons.whoseTitle.is('OK').first.elementClick();
};

Give it a try and let me know how it runs on your system!