Choose from List (was: Output)
Choose from List (was: Output)
- Subject: Choose from List (was: Output)
- From: Robert Peirce <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:14:48 -0400
This was a great suggestion and works fine for me. However, it is going to be tough to distribute to other people to use.
Please bear with me on some background. I picked up an app called MyVinyl, which can be used to catalog any kind of recordings I planned to use it for LPs. It does a great job with one exception. Often you want a list of all your LPs where a particular artist, instrument or tune appears. This information is in the database where it can be accessed for a particular recording, but it can't be searched.
I created a ksh script to do the searching. It works from a command line in a terminal window -- LPS -a 'Dave Brubeck'. I wanted to use Automator as a wrapper for those who don't like to use terminal. I started with "Ask for Text" where you enter the request exactly as you would on the command line, except you don't have to quote it: "-a Dave Brubeck". This is passed to a "Run Shell Script" action, which is a slightly modified version of my command line script. Finally, I want to list the output in a simple panel that can be closed with a <RETURN>.
"Choose From List" almost does this. The problem is there is a lot of extraneous stuff that is going to be confusing to the person just trying to do a search. These are the check boxes and the "Select All" and "Select None" buttons. I need an action that just does a list and nothing else.
As far as I can tell there isn't anything like this in the standard Automator package, which is why I was using "New Text Document". It's only problem was it took two steps to close it out and I was trying to simplify.
I know there are quite a few third party actions out there. Does anybody know of one that will do a simple list as I have outlined? _______________________________________________
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| | >Re: Output (From: Ron Murias <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Output (From: Todd Fernandez <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Output (From: Robert Peirce <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Output (From: Todd Fernandez <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Output (From: Robert Peirce <email@hidden>) |