[Ricci Adams]

From the Chimera 0.6 thread:

Originally posted by Seba:
Chimera is cool but i can't live without Shortcuts (see Omniweb > Preferences > Shortcuts).
I'm looking for a freeware killer app which brings a semi-transparent dialog window in the finder and forwards the 'shortcut' in the favorite browser.

ie.
writing in text field
dict example

results on browser
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=example

it works for almost all web appliances

Omniweb still rox! :-)

Since I was bored and had nothing else to do, I figured: "Why not?"

http://www.ricciadams.com/SpeedStick%201.0.dmg

[macmike42]

Oh man that is so damn cool. I did not know that an NSStatusBarItem could use an NSSheet. Care to share the source code?

[Gul Banana]

The mime types on your server are misconfigured. I'll try your program when I can click the link without a page of gibberish filling my browser window... .dmg should be application/octet-stream, not text/plain.

[macmike42]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
The mime types on your server are misconfigured. I'll try your program when I can click the link without a page of gibberish filling my browser window... .dmg should be application/octet-stream, not text/plain.

Oh just get Chimera and stop complaining! Yah know, some people aren't allowed to edit httpd.conf on their servers.

[Ricci Adams]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
The mime types on your server are misconfigured. I'll try your program when I can click the link without a page of gibberish filling my browser window... .dmg should be application/octet-stream, not text/plain.

Thanks for pointing this out, I believe I have fixed the problem. Please tell me if otherwise.

[CaseCom]

[Ricci Adams]

Originally posted by macmike42:
Oh man that is so damn cool. I did not know that an NSStatusBarItem could use an NSSheet. Care to share the source code?

Thanks

No plans to share the source yet - not to be selfish, but the window coming down from the status bar is one of my little tricks and I really don't want to let go of it *just yet*

You can do it with all public Cocoa classes and selectors though, just as a hint

[plot twist]

this is great. add a few things and it'll be greater.

1) if no command is entered, there should be an option to just use it as a url. this allows global interenet access.

2) get a better icon. a much better icon.

3) i dont know if this is possible, but a key command to open it and focus the mouse on the text area. this would allow entering a url without using the mouse.

these things would make this app have a permenant place on my menubar.

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by Ricci Adams:
No plans to share the source yet - not to be selfish, but the window coming down from the status bar is one of my little tricks and I really don't want to let go of it *just yet*

You can do it with all public Cocoa classes and selectors though, just as a hint

I know nothing about programming but I can tell how it works.

It will slide down the sheet from the location of your mouse.

Am I right?

[mrbiiggy2]

Nice app! I can't wait to see what creative things are added to it in the future.. Very good idea to solve many problems.. Thanks again!

[kzmk]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:


I know nothing about programming but I can tell how it works.

It will slide down the sheet from the location of your mouse.

Am I right?

i think the menu item is a window, and the menubar acts as a titlebar to which one can attach a sheet.
all he'd have to do is define a click on the menu as "error" or such, and another as "cancel"... that's how i'd try to do it if i could code.

nice effect, though.

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by kzmk:
i think the menu item is a window, and the menubar acts as a titlebar to which one can attach a sheet.
all he'd have to do is define a click on the menu as "error" or such, and another as "cancel"... that's how i'd try to do it if i could code.

If you move the mouse to different location of the menu item, you'll see that slide-in sheet does not come out from same one place.

[wil]

an option to have the text field always visible in the menubar would be cool. just an option. Not sure if this is possible of course. sweet app/thingy