Re: system services ?
Re: system services ?
- Subject: Re: system services ?
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:19:43 +0900
On 22 avr. 11, at 00:50, John Musbach wrote:
> Hello, I use Lingon whenever I want to configure my own custom service
> in Mac OS X (http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/). It used to be free
> but it unfortunately looks like it's now $5 since it moved to Apple's
> app store... I can provide you with the last known free version
> offlist if you'd like.
Thank you very much John.
I've eventually create my services in Automator.
Automator requires a service to register whether it takes input from the selection or not. The service will then only work if the condition is met. Which is a pain because it is thus not possible to create a default behavior (without input) and a new behavior (with input).
Basically I am using "run shell script" with the $@ variable, but I had to stop doing that since most of my use cases did not involve a selection...
I wish it were possible to write services directly outside of Automator (like with AS perhaps) but that looks like quite an endeavor...
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there a way to "easily" create system services without using Automator ?
>> And possibly without using 3rd party software ?
>>
>> I find that Automator is too slow for very fast actions and I'd like a faster way to do what I want to do...
>>
>> I thought about Applescript but what about packaging the script into a recognized service ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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