Aha! Thank you.

It works now. Beautifully. :-) Looks better than the LargeType app too!

(And I note that I'm not suffering from disappearing trigger syndrome (on Snow 
Leopard) - I reset my machine and it is still there.)

Keep up the good work. It is very much appreciated!

Gordon Charlton


On 18 Mar 2011, at 00:20, Howard Melman wrote:

> 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
> 

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