Get all relevant services to appear in context menus?

[devburke]

Does anyone know of a way to get all the services that appear under Services from the menu bar to appear in the context menu? Currently only a few do. And if it’s five or more, they get pushed to a “Services” submenu (although I found a utility on Apple’s automation website [URL="http://macosxautomation.com/services/download/index.html”]here[/URL] that lets you change it to anything up to twenty-five)

 

[cmaier]

Does anyone know of a way to get all the services that appear under Services from the menu bar to appear in the context menu? Currently only a few do. And if it’s five or more, they get pushed to a “Services” submenu (although I found a utility on Apple’s automation website [URL="http://macosxautomation.com/services/download/index.html”]here[/URL] that lets you change it to anything up to twenty-five)

What should happen is that all services that are relevant to what you've selected appear. So if you select text, only those that operate on text appear. If you select changeable text (e.g. a textinput field, or the like) then those services which input and replace text appear. Etc.

 

[devburke]

What should happen is that all services that are relevant to what you've selected appear. So if you select text, only those that operate on text appear. If you select changeable text (e.g. a textinput field, or the like) then those services which input and replace text appear. Etc.

No I get that. But I only get all of the relevant results from the menu bar. The selection from the context menu is only a subset of what I get in the menu bar, for the exact same input. For example, here’s the context menu when I highlight this text:



But here’s the services menu with the same text highlighted:



Why doesn’t the context menu give me options like “New Note With Selection”?

 

[cmaier]

No I get that. But I only get all of the relevant results from the menu bar. The selection from the context menu is only a subset of what I get in the menu bar, for the exact same input. For example, here’s the context menu when I highlight this text:

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But here’s the services menu with the same text highlighted:

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Why doesn’t the context menu give me options like “New Note With Selection”?

Hmm. No idea. In automator, you can tell which type of thing needs to be selected when you load the service. Is this a built-in service or something that you added?

 

[devburke]

Hmm. No idea. In automator, you can tell which type of thing needs to be selected when you load the service. Is this a built-in service or something that you added?

These are all built in. If you try it yourself, do you get all of them in both menus?

 

[cmaier]

These are all built in. If you try it yourself, do you get all of them in both menus?

Nope, I get what you get. All of the services I wrote myself seem to show up properly. Not sure what's going on.

 

[devburke]

Nope, I get what you get. All of the services I wrote myself seem to show up properly. Not sure what's going on.

I think it’s probably just that the context menu services being new, they’re still a little odd. Hopefully an update (I’m guessing 10.6.2) will make them better, giving them the icons and groupings like the menu bar ones.

 

[cmaier]

Not sure if the built-in services are available to look at in automator or something. I took a peek in /library but didn' see them. Oh, well.

 

[devburke]

Not sure if the built-in services are available to look at in automator or something. I took a peek in /library but didn' see them. Oh, well.

Some of them are in /System/Library/Services

 

[cmaier]

Some of them are in /System/Library/Services

Seem to be apps. Went into xcode and don't see a services template. I dunno.