Sorry the guide wasn't clear enough. There's a non-obvious trick. When configuring the trigger, the 3 panel command window opens (not the main one you get with cmd-space, but the one when you configure the trigger), you can actually copy an action out of the middle pane and paste it back in. So bring up some real text in the first pane, then the Large Text action should appear in the 2nd. cmd-c to copy the Large Text action. Then go back to the first pane and put the Current Selection proxy object in it and tab to the second pane. Now paste the Large Text action into it with cmd-v.
Howard On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Gordon Charlton wrote: > Hi, Noob here. Sorry. :-) > > What I'm trying to do is to reproduce the functionality of the LargeType > Services plug-in from Cold Pizza Software before Tiger kills it (it requires > Rosetta) sometime later this year. > > LargeType displays the currently selected text in Large Type. > > The sequence "Command C, Control Space, Command V, dot, Return" does the > same with Quicksilver, but I would like a hotkey trigger to do the same thing. > > So I have been reading Howard Melman's big Quicksilver User Manual... > > I have enabled the Get Current Selection proxy object (by enabling advanced > features in Preferences and Internal Objects in the Quicksilver section of > the catalog) so I can put the Current Selection object into the "select an > item" field when creating a trigger, but it won't let me specify Large Type > as the action. > > Melman mentions something about getting around this restriction (it's because > the current selection may not be text, apparently) in his guide, but it is > baffling me... > > Please can anyone help? > > Gordon Charlton
