i was asking the houdahspot developer about QS plugins to which he
replied:
"Please refer to the Help documentation for instructions for
integration with LaunchBar. HoudahSpot offers both a custom URL scheme
and AppleScript access to BlitzSearch. I am guessing that one of those
methods should work with QuickSilver."
I then checked there and found the following in the help for
Houdahspot:
"HoudahSpot gives access to the BlitzSearch feature by implementing a
custom URL scheme. You may set up a LaunchBar search template to call
into this URL scheme. The search string should be:
hhspot://blitzSearch?searchString=*&filenameFlag=YES&contentFlag=YES&commentsFlag=YES
An additional parameter, “templatename” makes it possible to specify
the name of a template to use.
You may use other tools to call into this mechanism. The popular
Safari plug-in Saft comes to mind.
AppleScript support
The BlitzSearch feature may also be called upon using AppleScript.
For use with LaunchBar, you would use the following script:
on handle_string(theString)
tell application "HoudahSpot"
blitzSearch theString filename yes content yes
comments yes
end tell
end handle_string
You may find other launchers, like Butler and QuickSilver, to be able
to call Apple Scripts."
the Custom URL format work quite nicely based on my limited initial
testing so far but I thought i would highlight this for other QS users
that may be using the excellent Houdahspot app. the developer is quite
responsive and deserves my dollars for that alone but the fact that he
continuously keeps improving this applications is brilliant.
