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The ultimate Quicksilver Thread

stangster | Nov 11 2005

Let's make this the The ultimate Quicksilver Thread. But I really think a own Category would suit our needs alittle bit better. Merlin? Is this Board supporting Subcategories?

Let's start with Websearches through QS: I don't get why i have to select the search action before I can use the variable input field? It's just confusing. My Question is: how can I arrange the various search Targets like I can arrange e.g. the Mail actions?

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Here is my problem :...

Submitted by guerom00 on November 19, 2005 - 9:51pm.

Dan Brendstrup wrote:
guerom00 wrote:
Here is my problem : I would like to define a trigger which runs the "Slideshow" action on the currently selected item...
Any hints ? I thought of an Applescript but QS is not very scriptable, is it...

QS is perfectly scriptable, in the sense that you can set a trigger to activate an Applescript you have saved on your hard drive.

So my best bet on the above is to create either an Applescript or an Automator action to get the selected Finder items and run a Slideshow, save that to disk and then create a trigger in Quicksilver to run that script...


Thanks Dan :) My problem is precisely to make an Applescript to run a Slideshow. I don't know how to do that....(is it a feature of the Finder ??)

When I say that QS "is not" scriptable :
Quicksilver has the "Slideshow" action (through a plugin) but I can't write an Applescript with

Tell Application "Quicksilver"
run "Slideshow" action ....
end tell

for instance :)

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