On 22 avr. 11, at 01:52, [email protected] wrote:

> On 2011-04-21 10:19 , Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> what definition of "services" are we talking about? Lingon is a launchd 
> editor; i thouht Jean-Christophe wanted to write services as in the "Services 
> Menu"

That's correct.

I think the main difference between a launcher and a service is that the 
service takes care of the pasting into the front application itself. Otherwise 
you have to add a "| pbcopy" to the script and paste the result yourself.

>> I wish it were possible to write services directly outside of Automator 
>> (like with AS perhaps) but that looks like quite an endeavor...
> 
> it sounds like writing ObjC code is not what you want to do; consider 
> AppleScriptObjC as a wrapper; here's someone apparently succeeding in 
> registering an AppleScript as a service this way
> 
> <http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=122728>

Thank you very much. I'll check that today.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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