Howard,
I just checked, but I believe you aren't really covering Droplet items
in the manual (around p50).
What droplets do :
They are pretty much commands with the ability to change the "subject"
of the command (the first qs command pane) based on the file you're
dropping on them. Which means you can create a droplet for quickily
resizing batches of images by combining Droplets and the Image
Manipulation Module (this is an untested example, I only did this with
the Large Type action).
How to create Droplets :
- Select the Droplet Item proxy (requires Advanced Features enabled).
- Select the action you want to perform on the object that will be
dropped on the Droplet.
- Set any parameters (if applicable)
- Do a Ctrl-Return. This will "encapsulate" the command.
- Choose "Save Command to File...", choosing the folder in which you
want the Droplet to be saved.
Now try dropping stuff on your newly created Droplet, and enjoy ;-).
Please note that it's a functionality that had been there for some
time, but may not well be tested. And I believe issues (even crashes)
will happen if you drop something completely unexpected on your
droplet, so please test carefully.
Also, it looks like you have a TODO in this section (on the timer
syntax).
The function responsible for this is QSTimeIntervalFromString, in
QSCommand.m:64.
HTH.
Le 24 sept. 08 à 21:40, Howard Melman a écrit :
I believe the steps are accurate and complete. If step 5 is not
working check that you have advanced features enabled in the
Application Preferences.
Howard
On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:33 PM, nicerobot wrote:
Is there supposed to be something between steps 5 and 6?
Also, it appears that step 5 does nothing at all. I've tried all
combinations of [modifer]-(return|enter) and nothing ever happens
except that some run the command, otherwise, nothing.
Thanks
On Sep 2, 8:26 am, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 1, 9:21 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might make use of the Save Command to File action. See the
"Command Objects and Droplets" section of the manual for creating a
command object.http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf
Yes, that seems to work, though I'm not sure I'm doing it right; I
can't figure out how to specify a filename within QuickSilver. (Of
course, it's easy enough to rename in Finder/Terminal.) I'm doing
this:
1. Control-Space to launch QuickSilver
2. Press "period" to switch to text mode
3. Type "Go stretch!" as the subject
4. TAB to the Action field, and type "LA" for Large Type
5. Press Control-ENTER to turn that into a command
6. Type "SA" to Save Command to File
7. Press TAB to reveal the Oobject field
8. ?? I can give it a directory name (i.e., "~" for my home
directory), but if I try to give it an actual filename, it starts
completing with existing filenames, which is exactly what I don't
want. I think it also puts it in the directory of whichever file
got
displayed...
Can you clarify #8 a bit? The manual didn't go into details on
usage.
The Save Command to File… action takes a command object and saves
it
in a file. You enter the file name as the argument and Quicksilver
saves it with the extension .qscommand. If you open the resulting
file
(e.g., by double-clicking it), it will run the command. Quicksilver
makes running commands simple and triggers make running command
even
easier. But for commands that you might run a few times but not
enough
to bother creating a trigger for, the Save Command to File…
action can
be useful. E.g., if your working on creating a document and you
want
to send several drafts to a group of people (using the comma trick)
it’s easy to save this (complicated) command in a file to rerun.
Howard
On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:
I want to set up a crontab entry that uses QuickSilver to
display an
hourly alert, and I can't figure out how to do that.
I'm sure I could set up a custom QuickSilver trigger, but that
seems
brittle. Is it possible to use the "qs" command-line plugin to
send
data to more than just the subject pane, and to use text mode?
I've
tried things like
qs ".Go Stretch!" "Large text"
but no dice.
Jay
