Kay, This is terrific. I forgot about services. My immediate need will probably be accommodated with this, although it will be great to have Trevor’s external as well so I have the option to do something more expansive.
Thank you, Bill Vlahos _________________ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. lcTaskList: (http://www.infowallet.com/lctasklist/index.htm) RunRev lcTaskList Forum: (http://forums.runrev.com/viewforum.php?f=61) On May 23, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: >> I want to enable the user to hilite any text on the screen go to that menu >> item and capture the hilited text for my program. > > This sounds more like a job for a 'Service' - which is what other > developers do. Your biggest problem is that most Mac users are unaware > that such Services exist. Unlike your solution, which would be > available even when text is not selected, Services are contextual and > therefore only appear at the appropriate moment. On my Mac when I open > any semi-text document (Reminders, Preview, iPhoto, or non-Apple; > BBEdit, Valentina Studio, Delicious Library...) and select nothing > there are NO Services available, but as soon as I select text then 8 > Services become available including 'Append Selection to BBEdit > Scratchpad' and 'New BBEdit Document with Selection' - sounds similar > to what you are trying to achieve. > > You can easily create your own Services using a combination of > Automator, AppleScript and Shell commands. This article might help, > but you can easily google others: > > http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/03/howto-build-mac-os-x-services-with-automator-and-shell-scripting/ > > It's a pitty the LC IDE itself doesn't come with any Services of it's > own as it would be a good starting point to plagiarise. > > HTH > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
