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Re: Part Reference Search Services
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:28:25 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> > Is this also available for PC user?
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> > Sounds great, I want to give it a try.
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> Services are an integrated part of Mac OS X that aren't present on other OSes
> (except NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, which aren't available any more). They make it
> fairly easy to do what Jim did here. While similar functionality could probably
> be implemented in Windows (via a tray icon, maybe?), it couldn't be done in a
> standard way, and it would require a lot more work. The Services menu on the
> Mac handles large numbers of items much better than the tray on Windows.
Sorry I didn't respond sooner, Mike. Anyway, Travis is right. It's especially
easy to make services out of simple little scripts with a utility called
ThiService (http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/).
For what it's worth, the scripts are extremely trivial - they simply open the
following URLs with the selection appended:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?v=2&catType=P&q=
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptscan.cgi?q=
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=
http://peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?limit=parts&query=
Services may be a Mac thing, but I'm sure something similar could be done for
Windows, at least if you copy the selection first. Maybe you could make a tray
menu thingy that opens those URLs with the clipboard contents as the query?
Jim
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| (...) search for sets instead of (or in addition to) parts. I had part identification in mind when I wrote the services, but I suppose similar set searches would be useful for collectors, too. Jim (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) Services are an integrated part of Mac OS X that aren't present on other OSes (except NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, which aren't available any more). They make it fairly easy to do what Jim did here. While similar functionality could probably be (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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