Desktop Pictures don't rotate while screensaver is running

By the way, how the world do you make your code look like that in these posts? When I use the "pre" tag it doesn't look like that.

Ah... brackets... ok. 🙂

No, my code and your code uses whatever folders are selected in the System Preferences. I have two folders of images — a "left" folder and a "right" folder... each have the same exact number of images in them, and are named alphabetically so that the left and right images on my monitors are always the correct "left" and "right" image. The code just needs to get the number of the image in sequence it will use, then use that number in each folder.

So, your code checks the number of pictures in the first folder, then adds "1" to that number and picks the next image in that folder, then displays it. Then your code does the same thing for the second monitor. Each number is based on whatever picture was a desktop at the time the script was run, so if your code gets 'out of sync' it stays that way and the left and right images aren't correct.

My code checks the first folder and gets the picture number, then used that number to pick the image from both folders, instead of recalculating the image number twice -- once for every desktop. That way, since I have an equal number of images in each folder, it will always pick the matching "right" image that goes with the calculated "left" image.

My images are custom cropped for my left monitor and my right monitor, and the "lefts" are the left half of the "rights" images... making rotating and spanning desktops.

Here is your first code, which I modified, which works and keeps the right and left images synced. (even if one image gets set wrong by accident -- via "set as desktop" commands in iPhoto or such) If you can improve this while keeping the self-correcting syncing, by all means... 🙂

{code}
tell application "System Events"

tell desktop 1
set curpicA to picture
end tell

tell desktop 2
set curpicB to picture
end tell

tell application "Finder"
select window of desktop
set i to index of file curpicA
set curfolderA to container of file curpicA
set curfolderB to container of file curpicB
if i < (number of files in curfolderA) then
set i to i + 1
else
set i to 1
end if
set newpicA to item i of curfolderA as alias
set newpicB to item i of curfolderB as alias
end tell

tell desktop 1
set pictures folder to curfolderA as alias
set picture rotation to 0
set picture to newpicA
end tell

tell desktop 2
set pictures folder to curfolderB as alias
set picture rotation to 0
set picture to newpicB
end tell

quit
end tell
{/code}

Hmmm... the curly brackets didn't work.

Myabe it is plain brackets?

hmmm

I see. This is awesome. Thanks for all your help. 🙂