I think you're describing the "Current Selection (Find With…)
Wikipedia Quicksearch" example at the top of page 42. If so there are
two things.
The search will open in whatever is the default browser. If Opera is
configured as the default browser (set of all places in the Safari
General preferences) it will open every search in Opera.
The Current Selection proxy object can only detect what is selected in
a cocoa text field, that is most modern apps but not all. It won't
work highlighting something in MS Office or Firefox. It does work
highlighting something in Mail.app and Safari and NetNewsWire.
I tried highlighting a word in Opera 8.54 and using that example
trigger, ⌃⇧⌘W, and it worked. It opened in Safari, but that's
because that's my default browser.
I forget if it's related, but getting the selection from any app is a
difficult thing to accomplish in Cocoa and Quicksilver has several
ways of doing this (I think from different attempts to get it to
work). See the description in "Combining Activation and Selection" on
page 18, particularly the 2nd paragraph.
Howard
On May 22, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Hilsee wrote:
Those tutorials use Safari and I'm using opera, which doesn't have a
plugin.
Also, I got it working....
but what I was wondering was if it was possible to be able to
highlight something and get it to search for it like on pg 41 of the
manual in OPERA.
THANKS IN ADVANCE AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.
On May 22, 9:45 am, seyDoggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you try these tutorials:http://www.nutmac.com/index.php/2008/02/01/web-search-with-quicksilve
...
On May 21, 6:22 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you see Web Searches in the Catalog under "Modules"? If not then
the Web Searches plugin isn't installed properly.
If you do then there are two things I can think of:
1. maybe you need to restart QS after having installed the Web
Search
plugin
2. maybe you need Advanced Features enabled in the Application
Preferences (changing this requires a restart)
Are you using B54 (3815)? Tiger or Leopard?
Howard
On May 21, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Hilsee wrote:
Yes I do.
Here's what I see when I click the '+' sign.
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6497/picture1ph1.png
On May 21, 3:32 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you have the Web Search plugin installed?
Howard
On May 21, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Hilsee wrote:
Ehhh, still having a problem.
When I hit the + sign to add a new web search, there isn't an
option
to add a new WEB SEARCH. The only option is to add a a folder
search,
along with some other garbage.
Thanks in advance though. I'M SO CLOSE.
On May 21, 3:07 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More details do help. I don't think there is a Quicksilver
plugin
for
the Opera browser so QS won't catalog it's bookmarks. If you
use
del.icio.us then the Social Bookmarks plugin will index those.
You should still be able to get web searches working. See the
"Adding
Web Searches Manually" section and the preceding Web Searches
section
starting on page 86. I have several of these search bookmarks
(like
the Wikipedia Quicksearch" one shown, entered not in my
browser but
in
QS. Which lets them work with whatever browser I have setup
as the
default.
One problem with documenting QS is figuring out a linear path to
describe things. I've tried describing a reading path and
dividing
things up in sections but I still need some forward
references. At
the top of page 41, it says "The Search For… action will
search
some
web site for the text entered as an argument. See the Web
Searches
section for the details of using this action."
Howard
On May 21, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Hilsee wrote:
I'm having some major problems with the google trigger and the
wikipedia one.
For starters:
I'm using OPERA. If I can't use triggers in opera, please
tell me.
I followed the steps on page 42 of the manual. What I don't
understand
is how, like in the picture, to get wikipedia to show up in the
last
box. (The manual explains this very, very poorly in my
opinion.)
I've also followed the steps on this website:
http://coelomic.wordpress.com/2006/01/02/quicksilver-tips/tono
avail.
I could not get the "Search for" in the second box to show up.
I've followed he steps on this guide:
http://heysage.com/2007/04/25/episode-6-google-search-from-
quicksilver/
Apparently QS doesn't auto index Opera's bookmarks and I don't
know
what to do next.
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps. This is quite the
frustrating
situation.
