Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 10, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've always thought of Spotlight in Rev as something that's most useful not for developers, but for developers' customers. Exactly. The ability to let them use the native tools of the OS to best advantage. Makes for more powerful software

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Troy Rollins wrote: On Mar 10, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Who wants their scripts indexed? And if someone wants a stack indexed, isn't the interest more likely in having the content indexed? Bingo. Although being able to spotlight my scripts could ultimately be helpful, I was

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: You are right. Spotlight does not index content, but EasyFind--see below--does search content. I wonder what it would take to make content stacks spotlight compatible? EasyFind sounds pretty neat, but it is a whole 'nuther thing. -- Troy

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 19 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:23:19 +1000 From: "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev To: "How to use Revolution" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > R

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 10, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Who wants their scripts indexed? And if someone wants a stack indexed, isn't the interest more likely in having the content indexed? Bingo. Although being able to spotlight my scripts could ultimately be helpful, I was hoping it worked w

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard Gaskin wrote: Who wants their scripts indexed? And if someone wants a stack indexed, isn't the interest more likely in having the content indexed? While I'm not a Mac user, I would actually enjoy this feature. I've created hundreds of stacks which do different things, and sometime

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Jim Ault
Hmmm, I don't get any results for my Rev stacks, either script, fld, or custom property. Maybe there is a preference or setting required. It would be nice to be able to have the spotlight search. Spotlight does work in NoteTaker (.ntx) outlining formats and Excel workbooks. Does anyone have thi

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Rev stacks since 2.6.1 (I think) have been indexed by Spotlight, but I think it only indexes the scripts and not the fields. Who wants their scripts indexed? And if someone wants a stack indexed, isn't the interest more likely in having the content indexed? :\ -- R

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> > Revolution 2.6 has a spotlight importer that will index our scripts > > but I really don't know if it is present on 2.7 > > Hmm. So, if we wanted to make our own content indexable, this doesn't > have much to do with that, huh? I was hoping there was some way to > support indexing data stacks a

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Troy, you can use applescript to set the text that is used to index you content... I really think there were something along the lines of a property called spotlighttext in Rev 2.6 that you could set and then it would be indexed using finder.mdimport... but I am quoting from memory and

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Mar 10, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: you can access all spotlight query features using the shell() command and calling mdfind command. Revolution 2.6 has a spotlight importer that will index our scripts but I really don't know if it is present on 2.7 Hmm. So, if we wanted to

Re: Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Troy, you can access all spotlight query features using the shell() command and calling mdfind command. Revolution 2.6 has a spotlight importer that will index our scripts but I really don't know if it is present on 2.7 Cheers andre On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: (Hi

Mac OSX, Spotlight, and Rev

2006-03-10 Thread Troy Rollins
(Hi again, everyone.) Some time back, I seem to recall reading that Revolution had some form of Spotlight integration under OSX. Can anyone point me to some information about this? Or just tell me I remember wrongly? Thanks. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___