Re: Basic help with Automator?
Re: Basic help with Automator?
- Subject: Re: Basic help with Automator?
- From: hd <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:47:27 +0000
On 13 Mar, 2009, at 6:41, davec wrote:
1) When I click on the Run button at the top of the Automator
window, nothing happens. Something apparently runs (I hear a beep
when it's finished), but there is no indication that anything has
been copied or pasted (I highlighted some text in the Automator
window to provide a source for the Copy command).
What am I doing wrong?
MagicJack needs to be the foremost, active application. To achieve
this you can add a Run Applescript action before your "paste" action
containing the following script:
tell application "MagicJack" to activate
(You can delete the template script that appears in the basic action.
It's not necessary here.)
(I note that the description of the "Copy To Clipboard" action says
"Text passed in from the previous action". There is no previous
action, only the highlighted text in the frontmost application
window. Is this valid input to this action?)
No: the Copy to Clipboard action requires text input from an Action.
This would need to be supplied from a previous action that produces
Text as its result (eg Ask for Text or Read Text
2) There is no Automator item in the contextual menu. How do I add
this?
It would need to be a contextual menu item specifically for MagicJack.
By default plugins are created for the Finder, although there are
other options. See the help file:
"Finder plug-in: These workflows run when chosen from the Finder’s
shortcut menu, also called the contextual menu. Any items selected in
the Finder will be passed as input to the first action of the workflow."
Finder plugins work with files or folders selected in the Finder, not
with text. I would think it unlikely that you can modify MagicJack in
this way.
And a real newbie question: why are there 3 Contextual Menu Items
folders:
Library/Contextual Menu Items
System/Library/Contextual Menu Items
~/Library/Contextual Menu Items
I presume this relates to scope: if you want an action available to
one user or all users, you choose the appropriate destination for
your action?
That's correct.
HTH
H
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