I can't take it anymore ... What is this for?

bigbadbill

bigbadbill

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Someone please tell me what the "Go to:" field at the bottom of some applications' open files navigation window is for and how do you use it? :p
 
If I were to open Quicktime and go to the open window, I could type "/Users/wdw_/Movies/Austin Powers 3.avi" instead of navigating through the folders.
 
OK, I guess I was just entering the nav info incorrectly.

Is there a way to switch from one drive to another? It seems to only search the main drive.
 
while we're on it... what on earth is 'services' and why can't i ever select anything from this menu? i assume i could select text and go to services-speak text, but noooo, it's never selectable.
 
it apparently isn't covered by a lot of apps, its sposed to do something useful
but it doesn't.
 
boi—

I have actually used this menu a few times lately. I know that it didn't work before, but now seems to work fine (maybe my latest upgrade to Jag helped). I can open a text document in TextEdit, selct the text, and choose SERVICES/SPEECH/START SPEAKING and wala, it starts yappin'. Also I use it from time to time to e-mail an attachment by selcting the attachment file and using SERVICES/MAIL/SEND FILE.

Or try this:

Open a New TextEdit document. Use the SERVICES/GRAB/SELECTION feature to take a screenshot of part of your screen and paste it into the text doc. Very usefull for collaborating on projects.
 
Services is one of the things I like about OmniWeb. If I find a news story that has some interesting comment buried deep inside it, I can highlight the interesting comment and go to Services > Mail > Send Selection and it opens a new Mail window with that text right in the body of the email message.
Or if I'm reading newsgroups with Thoth and I come across some kewl info, I highlight it and go to Services > TextEdit > Open Selection and presto - there's the text I want in a new TE document!
 
Services can potentially be used by Carbon apps, but the apps have to be rewritten to access them. And I have heard that Apple needs to tweak the API to make that easier to do before we see Service-using Carbon apps.
 
The Go To... field is very usefull in some apps, but completely useless in others. It helps, for example, if you want to open or save files to locations that are hidden (/usr, /var, etc), but those cases are rather rare for most users.

As for services, they are quite usefull, in Cocoa apps that is. OmniDictionary's Define is great. Just select a word in OmniWeb or some other app and hit Cmd-= and it pops up with the definition. Quite nice. Carbon Services are still broken in many apps, but some do support it, and the api is supposidly getting better with each release of Carbon.
 
Originally posted by LordOphidian
Carbon Services are still broken in many apps, but some do support it, and the api is supposidly getting better with each release of Carbon.
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What Carbon apps support Services? I would really like to know, it could make services more useful to me. Also, is it possible to put Services in the contextual menu? I am not a programmer, so i would not know, but if any of you want to give it a shot i would love to see what you come up with.
 
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