Apple Services menu via Squeak

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Jun 13 06:16:26 UTC 2005


john this is cool for mac user because this way squeak can interact  
with other apps :)
do you know if it will work on both directions? Squeak as a service?
stef


> Awhile back someone asked about making the macintosh Squeak VM  
> aware of the Services menu.
>
> I spent a few hours today working on this issue and now have a  
> plugin that allows you to feed
> text, perhaps other things, to the items on the Service menu. For  
> one this allows you to select text
> in Squeak and invoke Speak Text.
>
> However I need a few volunteers to try it.
>
> Also I've been trying to understand how to get Squeak to return a  
> value as a result of doing a calculation.
> So for example in another application selecting '3*4'  and going to  
> the Services menu and invoking
> "Squeak DoIt" and have it return the value 12.
>
> However I've not been able to make this work, oh well perhaps next  
> weekend.
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