On 22 avr. 11, at 00:50, John Musbach wrote:

> Hello, I use Lingon whenever I want to configure my own custom service
> in Mac OS X (http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/). It used to be free
> but it unfortunately looks like it's now $5 since it moved to Apple's
> app store... I can provide you with the last known free version
> offlist if you'd like.

Thank you very much John.

I've eventually create my services in Automator.

Automator requires a service to register whether it takes input from the 
selection or not. The service will then only work if the condition is met. 
Which is a pain because it is thus not possible to create a default behavior 
(without input) and a new behavior (with input).

Basically I am using "run shell script" with the $@ variable, but I had to stop 
doing that since most of my use cases did not involve a selection...

I wish it were possible to write services directly outside of Automator (like 
with AS perhaps) but that looks like quite an endeavor...

> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Is there a way to "easily" create system services without using Automator ?
>> And possibly without using 3rd party software ?
>> 
>> 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 ?


Jean-Christophe Helary
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