It would be pretty cool if QS supported some sort of action chaining,
via a shortcut like ctrl-tab or something, similar to ctrl-return.
Actually I have an idea how to implement it—a "process result..."
action that takes a QS command (from ctrl-return) in the first pane
and an action in the 3rd pane. Probably difficult to support 3-pane
actions as the second item in the chain, though...
Fortunately for you, AppleScript actions can take a file as input
directly using "on open theFile", and then get the path using "(quoted
form of POSIX path of theFile)". For instance, my script to convert a
plist to XML format is:
on open thePlist
do shell script "plutil -convert xml1 " & (quoted form of POSIX path
of thePlist)
return thePlist
end open
Lots of other cool stuff can be done this way—for instance I was just
inspired to make a "Make Burn Folder" and "Unmake Burn Folder" script
pair. "Encode"/"Decode URL" is also useful.
On Jan 1, 4:33 am, yoose <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, i want to be able to use a file or folder as input to an
> applescript much like how text can be used, but do not see it in the
> action list for "files and folders". for my current purpose, having
> the path is good enough for me, so I can use the "Get Absolute (POSIX)
> Path" action, but that does not allow an action afterwards to follow
> so I have to execute that and then take the result and feed it into
> the applescipt. so i was wondering if it is possible to make it so i
> can use a file/folder as an input to applescript where it takes the
> POSIX path as text or if actions in the second pane that produce text
> can have a third pane option to process that text. thanks.
