That's a good idea. One might need to play with the syntax a little, but
the ability to define a list of choices in the third pane would be great.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:56:57 PM UTC-4, David Rees wrote:
>
> I had an applescript idea that I think could be very useful. What if
> applescripts could provide their own third pane items items?
>
> Right now an applescript can indicate a subset of the global catalog by
> indicating the indirect types. But that is filtering against the global
> catalog without any awareness of the first pane object.
>
> Instead, what if we added a "indirect choices" handler that allowed the
> applescript to indicate a list of third pane choices for the user. The
> script could build and return the third pane choices based on the first
> pane object. QS would show them in the third pane, allow the user to pick,
> then call the open handler normally with the items and selected indirect
> items.
>
> For example, a script could allow copying text to a particular header
> inside a word document:
>
> get indirect choices _items_
> -- cool applescript here that looks at _items_ to build a text list of
> choices
> return { "text list of headers in document" }
> end get indirect choices
>
>
> Or it could be used to handle variations on the action, for example for a
> "copy to server" script:
>
> get indirect choices _items_
> return { "normal", "force" }
> end get indirect choices
>
> Or the script could filter the third/indirect items to the ones that
> mattered for the first pane object.
>
> get indirect choices _items_
> return { "only folders/servers/URLs than make sense for _items_" }
> end get indirect choices
>
>
> d
>
>
>
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