stevebr
07-10-2010, 11:29 AM
[EDIT: Posted this in the wrong forum. Should be in "System." Sorry.]
After finally upgrading to 10.6 last week, today I'm spending some time rolling my own services to replace a bunch of Finder contextual menu items that OnMyCommand (http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html) previously made possible.
The change to services is an adequate replacement for most of what I'm trying to do, but there are a couple of aspects of OMC's behaviour that I can't seem to replicate in Automator. Neither is especially problematic, but I thought I'd ask before giving up:
1) When right-clicking on an empty spot in a Finder window or the desktop, OMC would take the folder displayed as "__OBJ_PATH__" (analogous to "input" in an Automator service script). Services apparently need something actually selected to be triggered.
2) It was possible to create submenus on the context menu with OMC. I suppose I could work around this by using some kind of categorical naming of the services, but the list is still going to be quite long without some nesting.
I presume neither of these are possible, but if someone knows different, please advise.
After finally upgrading to 10.6 last week, today I'm spending some time rolling my own services to replace a bunch of Finder contextual menu items that OnMyCommand (http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html) previously made possible.
The change to services is an adequate replacement for most of what I'm trying to do, but there are a couple of aspects of OMC's behaviour that I can't seem to replicate in Automator. Neither is especially problematic, but I thought I'd ask before giving up:
1) When right-clicking on an empty spot in a Finder window or the desktop, OMC would take the folder displayed as "__OBJ_PATH__" (analogous to "input" in an Automator service script). Services apparently need something actually selected to be triggered.
2) It was possible to create submenus on the context menu with OMC. I suppose I could work around this by using some kind of categorical naming of the services, but the list is still going to be quite long without some nesting.
I presume neither of these are possible, but if someone knows different, please advise.