On Mar 15, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Chris Cairns wrote:
On Mar 15, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
Out of curiousity, can you describe what Butler does differently
from QS in this regard?
Surely. (I m sorry that no Howard Melman has written a manual for
Butler, so you will have to bear with my explanation).
Butler allows us to make a container (Custom pasteboard) which can
be opened up as a menu near them mouse or any screen corner. This
container can be assigned a shortcut and it list all its items
(text, images etc) in a menu. Butler offers the facility to set up a
trigger either to the menu or to the individual items of the menu or
to both. Also, all the items of the menu can be executed
sequentially and a trigger can be set to do this.
Also there are plenty of presets like "Paste recent pasteboard 1"
"Paste recent pasteboard 2"
"Paste as plain text" etc
Then there is a separate "keystrokes" which accepts any keys that
can be thrown into anywhere or used to paste text.
After all this, there is also a separate "Text" smart item (probably
to separate only plain text triggers).
And remember, there are no trigger scoping issues which really
multiplies the importance of all this when compared to quicksilver.
So if you are impressed, please start writing a manual for Butler.
If you are not i m willing to continue the debate.
No debate, I'm just curious as to features in other products I'm not
aware of. Let's see if I understand this...
So Butler offers multiple pasteboards (sounds like multiple "clipboard
storage" in QS terminology or maybe "shelf"). If QS had that, then the
existing facility to create hotkey triggers and mouse triggers would
mirror how Butler provides access to them. Though the "execute all"
function isn't in QS, QS does have "internal commands" (in the catalog
under QS) to "paste clip store [1,2,3...]" so it's easy to create a
trigger to do this.
QS doesn't have a paste as plain text and that would be useful. People
have written scripts using pbpaste and pbcopy to enable this for
what's on the clipboard but a new action would be simplest.
Keystrokes sounds like the Type Text action (with pehaps a simpler way
to specify modified keys like control-c. I'm not sure what the "text
smart item" is or what the Butler trigger scoping features are.
Thanks for the info.
Howard
