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 ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
