On 19 avr. 11, at 12:58, [email protected] wrote: > On 2011-04-18 19:59 , Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> Is there a way to "easily" create system services without using Automator ? >> And possibly without using 3rd party software ? > > i don't know why you'd need avoid 3rd party software?
Because I'd like to take this opportunity to start writing "native" code on my own :) > here are two i've heard of; i think i used ThisService a few times years ago: > > <http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/> > <http://www.xendai.com/> I actually tried thisservice a few days ago and for some reason I could not register the service properly. I'll give it another try. >> I find that Automator is too slow for very fast actions and I'd like a >> faster way to do what I want to do... >> >> I thought about Applescript but what about packaging the script into a >> recognized service ? > > you can package an AppleScript (and/or a shell script) directly with > Automator to make a service; i don't use 10.6 (and use Automator very > little), but this seems to be a decent tutorial: The problem is the packaging in Automator. I've already written small things in Applescript or bash and they run fast enough on their own, but putting that in Automator makes the service unreliably slow. I mean it can be fast sometimes, and not responsive at all other times and I'd have to hit the associated shortcut a number of times before Automator sends me anything etc... > <http://www.atpm.com/16.01/services.shtml> Thanks for the link. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
