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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008where are Services?
Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items from? I have a really handy service on my Leopard comptuer called Convert, which I use frequently. It's great for upper and lower cases and decoding tabs. On my wife's Tiger iMac, there ain't no Convert service. I'm wondering which application might have added it, or if it's part of Leopard. When I did a Spotlight search for "initial caps of sentences", amongst other things two documents came up: ApplicationServicesFrameworkReference.pdf CoreServicesReferenceCollection.pdf They're both big fat documents of nearly 3000 pages each(!!). Weirdly, when I opened them, "initial caps of sentences" was shown in the search bar top right, with "not found" under it, and the the file disappeared from the results list in Spotlight. I guess previous versions of the document talked about "initial caps of sentences", but the latest versions don't. You'd think in 6000 pages of documentation, they could find some little corner to talk about sentence caps.  SignaturePd > Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items > from? I have a really handy service on my Leopard comptuer called [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > On my wife's Tiger iMac, there ain't no Convert service. I'm wondering > which application might have added it, or if it's part of Leopard. Found um. They're from those lovely people at Devon Tech, and you can download them for free! What jolly good sorts. <http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/index.html> SignaturePd > Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items > from? I have a really handy service on my Leopard comptuer called [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > documentation, they could find some little corner to talk about sentence > caps. Have a read of <http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.12/OSXServices/index.h tml> My Tigger doesn't have Convert either tho'. Kind regards, Dave > Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items > from? Similarly, is there a way to find where contextual menus get their items from? I use SoHo Notes, which suits me pretty well, but it adds three irritating extra items to *all* contextual menus, and I'd love to get rid of them. MST > > Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items > > from? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > MST ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ or /Library/Contextual Menu Items Cheers, Signaturejames dore IT Officer, New College, Oxford http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ it-support@new.... > > > Is there a simple way to find out where the Services menu gets its items > > > from? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > > MST Ahem... > ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ And > /Library/Contextual Menu Items > > Cheers, Bugger. Signaturejames dore IT Officer, New College, Oxford http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/ it-support@new.... >> I use SoHo Notes, which suits me pretty well, but it adds three irritating >> extra items to *all* contextual menus, and I'd love to get rid of them. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > /Library/Contextual Menu Items Hmmm, yes. That's where the general contextual menu items are. I didn't realise that you get different menu items depending on what's selected at the time (I guess that's what makes them 'contextual'). Anyhow, if I select some text in a word processor or some such, the contextual menus are quite different, and *those* are the ones I'm trying to track down and delete. Any thoughts? MST >>> I use SoHo Notes, which suits me pretty well, but it adds three irritating >>> extra items to *all* contextual menus, and I'd love to get rid of them. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >contextual menus are quite different, and *those* are the ones I'm trying to >track down and delete. Those are per-app, and come from the application executable or the resources. Since SoHo Notes modifies every context menu, then it must be hooking the system call somehow. Does the installer leave a log to say what it did? Mind you, a cursory google shows that almost everyone hates SoHo Notes, with good reasons. Looks like they do more than hooking into the right-click... http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28977&page=3 Cheers - Jaimie Signature"Power corrupts, but we need the electricity." >> Anyhow, if I select some text in a word processor or some such, the >> contextual menus are quite different, and *those* are the ones I'm trying [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > be hooking the system call somehow. Does the installer leave a log to > say what it did? Possibly, but it's a long time since I installed it. (Recent upgrades offer features I actively don't want, and are expensive.) Where should I look? > Mind you, a cursory google shows that almost everyone hates SoHo > Notes, with good reasons. Looks like they do more than hooking into > the right-click... They do hate it, don't they? A pity, as I do like the Quick Note feature (a hot key lets me add a note from anywhere, at any time, even if the app isn't running) and the search menu in the menu bar. Does any other software offer this? MST > They do hate it, don't they? A pity, as I do like the Quick Note feature (a > hot key lets me add a note from anywhere, at any time, even if the app isn't > running) and the search menu in the menu bar. Does any other software offer > this? DevonThink? Not quite sure as I haven't really got stuck into using it, but people do seem to like it. SignaturePd >>> Anyhow, if I select some text in a word processor or some such, the >>> contextual menus are quite different, and *those* are the ones I'm trying [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Possibly, but it's a long time since I installed it. (Recent upgrades offer >features I actively don't want, and are expensive.) Where should I look? Good question. Try the application bundle (right click the app, Show Package Contents), or the app folder if it has one, and your home folder. I'm not keen on installing it here to find out, what with the apparent risk of brokenness! Oh for OSX in a VM... Cheers - Jaimie Signature"The answer to the second question," said Merry, "is that we could get off in an hour. I have prepared practically everything. There are six ponies in the stable across the fields." -- J R R Tolkien |
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