Your trick using the Clipboard Contents proxy object is a good one. It
does indeed require the Clipboard plug-in and it does seem to work in
B4 on Leopard even with it's proxy object problems. Creating other
triggers using the Clipboard Contents proxy object and other actions
(like web searches or dictionary lookup, etc.) should work too.
Also, the simple way is to use cmd-v right after activating
Quicksilver (control-space) to paste the clipboard into the first
pane. That's just one keystroke more.
Howard
On Aug 31, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Benton G wrote:
A kind of clugy workaround that I sometimes use is to enable the
Clipboard plugin and set up a trigger to bring up the clipboard
contents (useful even if you don't use it for this workaround). Then,
whenever you want to do something to text in Word or Firefox, or some
such application, you select it, hit Cmd-C, hit whatever your hotkey
is for the clipboard contents in QS, and now you can work as if you
had just invoked QS with the selected text. Granted, that's one extra
key command, but it does work...
On Aug 31, 9:30 am, mason k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to riff on what Melman said, "Cocoa" is mainly a library (API)
that offers a bunch of interface elements to programmers. MS word
doesn't use cocoa because it's a fake Mac port (and nothing MS
touches
is right). Firefox doesn't use cocoa because their cross platform
plugin architecture is heavily reliant on the interface API that they
do use, which is called XUL. As long as Firefox offers the
extensibility that makes it Firefox, it won't be written with Cocoa.
I actually switched to Safari because of this problem, but I do miss
Firefox - a lot. Especially since FF3 is so snappy compared to
Safari.
I bet someone could hack up a workaround to this problem using a
firefox plugin...
On Aug 28, 8:54 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Getting the selection from another application is difficult. An
operating system, in part is supposed to keep apps from interacting.
QS's method works with applications that use the cocoa framework.
Those apps that don't, don't work. If the apps start using cocoa
(and
probably something specific within cocoa) they should work.
Howard
On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:38 PM, RC wrote:
I've read that QS does not support these applications in regards to
Queing up QS with selected text? are there any solutions what so
ever? Mozillas new ubiquitous does it well, a mix between the two
would be wonderful.
