On 5/22/07 7:34 AM, Rich Hansen deftly typed out:

> Ok, I'll bite. As both Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer are NOT
> applications nor files (they're components) I'm not sure how one invokes
> them in Quicksilver.

The links I provided yesterday point to the application inside of the
component package. These aren't in the default path Quicksilver searches for
Applications in, but one can add a custom scanner for those two locations.

<file:///System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedS
upport/KeyboardViewerServer.app>

<file:///System/Library/Components/CharacterPalette.component/Contents/Share
dSupport/CharPaletteServer.app>

> I thought about another third party add on MEnuMaster which will but it
> needs APE and thus may not be everyone's cup of tea. I'm interested in the
> Quicksilver route myself ° that program is about the most versatile time
> saving application known.

The other route is to write two very short AppleScripts to launch the apps:

do shell script "open
/System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/K
eyboardViewerServer.app"

do shell script "open
/System/Library/Components/CharacterPalette.component/Contents/SharedSupport
/CharPaletteServer.app"

Save them as applications and put them in /Applications or ~/Applications
and have QuickSilver rescan its catalog.

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