Re: Services and FileMaker
Re: Services and FileMaker
- Subject: Re: Services and FileMaker
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:35:19 -0800
What do you mean by the old services menu?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Me <email@hidden> wrote:
> What kind of app is filemaker? Contextual snow leopard services only
> work in native cocoa apps. Programs like iTunes must use the scripts
> folder or old services menu.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Bruce Robertson <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Ben Waldie' s video of using a Snow Leopard service to get text from a URL
>> is interesting.
>>
>> <http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=3a82cb79-60cd-4209-8eff-96bd8082fc21>
>>
>> I tried to do the same thing myself, but ran into two problems. One problem
>> is that I get better results if I identify the source as text rather than
>> URL. This also enables you to grab info from a file URL. If I leave the
>> source as URL, the service is often not visible in the service menu or
>> contextual menu. After setting up a service to recognize text, I got it to
>> work OK in apps like Tex-Edit.
>>
>> The second problem is that it doesn't look like FileMaker handles text
>> services. Selecting text in a standard FileMaker text field never reveals
>> any Services. If the text is in a FileMaker web viewer, then Services become
>> available.
>>
>>
>> Bruce Robertson
>> Filemaker 9 Certified
>>
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