The service actions you describe won't really work the way one would want them to. Inserting a date is a text action, so if you invoked it from Quicksilver it would have to run on text in the first pane. But this would result only in inserting the date into the first pane, not into the document you want to use.
However, you could easily create some Applescripts to do this. The following script will enter the long form of the current date and time at the insertion point. To change what is inserted, change which line is uncommented. set thedate to (current date) -- "Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:24:32 PM" --set thedate to date string of (current date) --> "Sunday, May 17, 2009" --set thedate to time string of (current date) --> "8:24:32 PM" --set thedate to weekday of (current date) --> Sunday tell application "System Events" to keystroke (thedate as text) If you need more info and ideas on working with date strings in Applescript, see http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24737 On May 17, 12:59 am, pendolino <[email protected]> wrote: > here's the story: > * i have a service family called 'wordservice' taht provides me with > some interesting tools such as 'insert date' or 'insert long date' and > the like. these can be found under 'insert' in the services menu. > > * i invoke QS and try to run one of these actions (i do have the > services plugin installed and working) but they will only come up when > they are in the action pane meaning i have to have some object > selected first. > > * these actions do not require an object to act on but simply type the > current date and/or time into the active application where my cursor > is (texedit, browser, etc) > > the question: > * how do i get this to work? i need to use these 'services' as > standalone actions much like i run some scripts using QS.
