On 21 May 2009, at 10:49 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > > > > On 05/21/09 13:30, "Alex Montgomery" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2009-05-21, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: >> >>> On 2009-05-21 18:33, "Alex Hamann" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> I have to say that I would really like to be able to do this ie do >>>>> the >>>>> equivalent of dragging the PDF file onto the top window in >>>>> bibdesk. >>>>> >>>>> I think that it might require >>>>> >>>>> 1) Bibdesk App accepts dropped pdfs >>>>> 2) There is some way of deciding which bib file is the target of >>>>> the dropped >>>>> pdf if more than one is open. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Greg. >>>>> >>>> >>>> It is not clear to me what you would expect to happen? Do you >>>> want to >>>> autofile the pdf or are you hoping to extract the bibtex data from >>>> the pdf by dropping it on the BibDesk icon? >>> >>> Extract DOI and use it to make a new bibtex record and then autofile >>> PDF - >>> which is what happens when you drop a pdf that contains a DOI that >>> can be >>> looked up on PubMed onto a bibdesk window. >> >> Dropping on the BibDesk icon (or having Safari, etc. send it to >> BibDesk) should probably be treated consistently with dropping a text >> file: open up a new bibliography with the PDF attached to an empty >> record. > > There are a couple of separate requests getting mixed into this > thread, it > seems. Christiaan already pointed out that you can't add an "Add to > BibDesk" item to a browser's contextual menu, since the browser has > no way > of knowing what data underlies a particular link (web page, pdf > file, text > file...). >
And from the first request it's not even clear to me we're talking about a link (and to what). It sounds really like "let me do whatever I'm thinking of right now", which of course is not possible as long as Apple doesn't add PSI to MAcOSX (and I'm not talking about IM). It's all about context, and that it completely lacking in the requests in this thread. That's why it won't happen. >> If "open up one particular bib file" is set in Preferences, perhaps >> it >> could be added to that bib file instead. > > Maybe, but what problem does dropping on the icon solve? You can > get the > same result without this ambiguity by adding a file or dragging a URL > directly to a BibDesk document. BibDesk's interface and code > already suffer > from too many ways to do the same thing, in my opinion. Indeed. Dropping a file on a dock icon opens the file, in an appropriate way of interpreting "open a file". Nothing else. Now any of these proposals have nothing to do with opening a file, not even remotely. Again, it's about context. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
