Obviously, if you have non-unique titles or a publication without a title, this won't work. Well, it will work with non-unique titles, but it'll select all of them.
If the title of the front editing window was the cite key, this could be modified to just select the unique publication. That, of course, wouldn't work if the cite key hadn't been assigned yet. I don't know if there's an easy way of exposing directly in Applescript "the publication of window 1". -AHM On May 19, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > Here's a hacky way of doing it: > > tell application "BibDesk" > set frontWindowName to the name of window 1 > set theDoc to the document of window 1 > set thePubs to (publications of theDoc whose value of field "title" > is frontWindowName) > set selection of theDoc to thePubs > end tell > > On May 19, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> Can you write an AppleScript to select the frontmost item being >> edited >> in the main table? That will cause the preview to display the item >> you want. I don't think it's worth adding to the menus or editor >> window, though. >> >> -- >> Adam >> >> >> On May 19, 2007, at 13:42, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> First note that creating the preview is a rather slow process, while >>> selecting a window is quick. So I don't think this will work very >>> well. Moreover, we already have 2 places where you can view latex >>> preview of the (selected) item(s). This seems much more useful to me >>> and sufficient. >>> >>> Christiaan >>> >>> On 19 May 2007, at 10:38 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: >>> >>>> Many times I have many "get info" windows open, and want to see how >>>> the one I am looking at currently looks in the LaTeX preview; >>>> but in >>>> the meantime, I have been browsing around in my BD library, looking >>>> at other references and probably opening up new "get info" windows. >>>> >>>> If it is not already available, in which case I will be glad to be >>>> redirected to the appropriate documentation, I propose a new >>>> feature: >>>> preview top bib record. Upon selecting this item from the menu (or >>>> using a keyboard combination) the preview for the top-most get info >>>> window will be shown. >>>> >>>> This is particularly useful with more complicated styles; often I >>>> want to see whether I put the right info in the right field, or >>>> else >>>> the fields are not descriptive enough to know what they really >>>> mean, >>>> but the preview will decode it for me. >>>> >>>> -Adam >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Adam M. Goldstein >>>> amgoldstein <at> mac <dot> com >>>> http://homepage.mac.com/amgoldstein >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> - >>>> -- >>>> --- >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>>> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bibdesk-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>> ---- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bibdesk-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> --- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bibdesk-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
