Wow Jon - superb response. Thank you very much. But while useful for applications, I particularly meant more as a reminder... i.e. "put laundry in dryer after 50 minutes" -- so this is really what I was wanting to use it for. But if there is no way around the ctrl+enter, then I guess there's just no way around it. Looking forward to your response again, Jon. Thanks for your help everybody - great community here !
On May 20, 10:41 pm, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is simply a matter of misunderstanding what the Run after > Delay… action is for. > > Sagar Shah, I think that you are trying to do something like having > Safari open after a certain delay, and so you have been trying to > create a command like > > Safari, Run after Delay…, 60 > > As you have discovered, that does not work. Instead, you first need to > enter the command "Safari, Open" and then press Ctrl-Return. Pressing > Ctrl-Return causes the entire existing QS command ("Safari, Open") to > become the object of a new command. In the second pane of this new > command you can select Run after Delay… as its action and then enter a > time in the third pane. Then you will end up with a command like this > > "Safari, Open", Run after Delay…, 60" > > What this command means is "Wait 60 seconds and then carry out the > instructions currently listed in the first pane." So the Open action > is still what actually launches Safari, whereas the Run after Delay… > action is what runs the entire "Safari, Open" set of instructions > (after the delay has expired). > > In other words, the Run after Delay… action does not take applications > or files as its objects; it takes other complete Quicksilver commands > as its objects. It is the job of those other commands to perform > actions on applications or files. > > For more information, please see pp. 47-48 of Howard Melman's user > guide > athttp://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/browse_thread/th... > > On May 19, 11:11 am, Sagar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hey again -- > > thanks Patrick. If you can whenever you get a chance it'd be great, > > but if someone else can chime in and help out - I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks. > > > On May 19, 11:00 am, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I've just had a look and I can't seem to get it to work either :( > > > > Maybe someone who uses this will know more. Sorry. > > > > It may be a code problem which I could look into, but I'm too busy at the > > > moment > > > > On 19 May 2010 15:51, Sagar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey Patrick - thanks again for your response. > > > > > It is checked, and still I'm having to hit ctrl + enter. I'm not sure > > > > why that's happening. > > > > > On May 19, 9:23 am, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > It should be checked! > > > > > > Checking it will make it work :) > > > > > > On 19 May 2010 13:54, Sagar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > thanks for your response... > > > > > > > Unfortunately, yes -- it's checked off in the action section. Any > > > > > > other ideas... anybody ? Just new to QS so I can forget how to do it > > > > > > each time... much easier if it shows up with the normal commands. > > > > > > > i'd appreciate any help -- thanks very much. > > > > > > > On May 19, 3:34 am, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > If you go into the Quicksilver preferences (CMD + , whilst QS > > > > > > > window > > > > is > > > > > > > open), then go to the action tab, is the 'run after delay' action > > > > ticked? > > > > > > > > It should be for the action to show up. What you're using is > > > > > > > what's > > > > > > called > > > > > > > the 'alternative action' e.g. if you hold CMD whilst using the > > > > > > > 'open' > > > > > > > action, it opens the file in Finder as opposed to the file /app > > > > itself > > > > > > > > On 19 May 2010 03:32, Sagar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi -- > > > > > > > > I'm having to hit ctrl+ enter to get this option available. Is > > > > there a > > > > > > > > reason I can't just simply type in "run " or "delay" and have it > > > > show > > > > > > > > up natively as an option? > > > > > > > > > I looked at the manual as well but it only has information on > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > feature and says to type in run after delay, I'm not able to do > > > > that. > > > > > > > > Any help would be great -- thanks.
