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Launchbar edit snippet9/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Copyright © 2014, Eyes of the World Limited. If you want to share this ebook with a friend, we ask that you do so as you would with a physical book: “lend” it for a quick look, but ask your friend to buy a copy for careful reading or reference. This book explains LaunchBar’s six superpowers and teaches you how to work faster and more efficiently on your Mac. LaunchBar 6 streamlines the way you access apps, open files, browse your file system, use the Web, copy and paste, insert text, access data from certain applications, run calculations, control iTunes, handle file management, control your Mac, and more. This book was written by Kirk McElhearn and edited by Tonya Engst. 157 4 Read Me First Welcome to Take Control of LaunchBar, version 1.1, published in September 2014 by TidBITS Publishing Inc. 143 Copy LaunchBar Settings to Another Mac. 122 Master Actions, Services, and Workflows. 105 Do Amazing Things with Files and Folders. 85 Work with Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders. 83 Append a Clipboard Item with ClipMerge. You can download this extension from my site.EBOOK EXTRAS: v1.1 Downloads, Updates, Feedback TAKE CONTROL OF LAUNCHBAR COVERS ! 6 R A B H L AUNC by KIRK McELHEARN $10 Table of Contents Read Me First. I’ve no idea why there’s no 64-bit version! Which uses a 32-bit perl library to get the current user’s default browser. I can just start typing Save Link, and select it to save it.Īs an aside, it also contains the interesting perl snippet: VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes perl -MMac::InternetConfig -le 'print +(GetICHelper "http")' When I want to save a bookmark in Pinboard, if I’m in either Chrome or Safari, It notably won’t do anything in Firefox or Opera though. This works by using either Safari or Chrome (or trying the default if neither Set bookmarklet to "q=location.href if(document.getSelection) p=document.title void(open(''+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=700,height=350')) "Įxecute front window's active tab javascript bookmarklet The Default Script, and hit the edit button, then I added my AppleScript, and So, I made a new Launchbar Action in the Action Editor by filling out the basicĭetails in the General pane, then, in the Script pane, I chose AppleScript as Luckily, LB6’s developer docsĪre comprehensive and useful, so I quickly figured out I needed a run handler,ĭisplay dialog "No argument was passed to the action"Īnd if you don’t need it, you can omit the return. The next step was to work out how to do this with the Pinboard bookmarklet, When I hit the run button, Safari popped up an alert boxĬontaining the URL of the page loaded in Safari’s frontmost tab. Set current_tab to the current tab of the front window Set bookmarklet to "alert(document.location)" In the Script Editor: tell application "Safari" Instead, I tried the following AppleScript snippet Launchbar’s index, and using them to open bookmarklets. In fact, the post talks about adding a folder of AppleScript files to Which is a post about opening bookmarklets using older versions of Launchbar. So I set about trying to open the bookmarklet in Safari, using AppleScript. I quickly realised that what I wanted was the popup bookmarklet listed on The current URL loaded in Safari (or Chrome, and ideally also Firefox or any The goal of my mission was to create a way to use a Launchbar action to take A step which would also give me the chance to play So, adding the ability to save bookmarks to Pinboard, using Launchbar seemed Highly-extensible launcher and general purpose app for doing things on Macs. Opting to either just search the web for sites I need to revisit, or store them in I don’t really use the bookmark functionality built into web browsers, instead This post covers my mini AppleScript adventure using Launchbar 6’s cool Launchbar actions for browsing Pinboard are pretty much covered, but IĬouldn’t find any actions to save them in the way I want, so set about writing
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