system services ?
system services ?
- Subject: system services ?
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:45:06 +0900
I have created a service by using Automator and a "run shell script".
The problem is that just like all the Automator services I have it tends do be too slow so I'm considering a rewrite into something more "native".
I seem to remember there was a well documented section in the developer documentation about creating services but when I last checked yesterday I only found that:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/introduction.html
Basically what the service is doing is:
1) grep an external text file
2) pipe the result to remove line breaks (by using "tr")
3) paste the piped result to the cursor position
The reason why I created the service in Automator is that I can call it with a shortcut and Automator does the pasting. I found no way to automate the pasting with a command line only script (piping the result to pbcopy requires to do the pasting manually).
But Automator is sometimes very slow even though the text file is only a few lines long.
So I'm looking for a faster solution.
I've never tried learning to program Objective-C (or anything else for that matter) and if that's the only solution available I'd appreciate some pointers. Are there services for which the source is available ?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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