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 >
