Comments on: Become a Mac OS X Services Ninja

By: Philippe Mougin

Philippe Mougin — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:50:00 +0000

@Amy

Thanks for your comments!
No plan to write about contextual menu plugins, a subject I barely know about. I hope to read more on them on Slash7 soon!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:17:20 +0000

Hey, great article! I’m looking into writing my first service and I don’t know Obj-C (yet) so this was SUPER helpful for me. (Also thanks to Peter Hosey for the link to ThisService.)

Even if I wasn’t looking to program, your link to Service Scrubber is worth the read :)

Found you via a long, hard service googling session and you’re now in my feed reader. Any chance you’ll do another one on contextual menu plugins? (Pretty please?)

By: lance

lance — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:35:12 +0000

Remember when NeXTSTEP supported service filters at the NSImageRep level, making them seamlessly available to any AppKit developer with no additional code? Where did that go, it was really handy! I can use that now.

thanks!-

-lance

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:39:37 +0000

Bellhop’s webpage sounds like Bellhop is an application that dispatches to your scripts, making them second-class citizens, inferior to Cocoa-based services. Ick.

A much better implementation is ThisService, which lets you write real, stand-alone services in any scripting language. You don’t even need to keep ThisService installed, and you can distribute your services to other people. That’s because because the services are real service bundles, no different from service bundles written in Cocoa.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:57:02 +0000

very cool. thanks!