QS doesn't pull selection on Snow Leopard?

[yoav]

I am a new user to QS. I just installed it today on my Mac, running
Snow Leopard.
There are a few weird things, but the first one I wish to solve is the
lack of selection pulling. I know that QS is supposed to take your
selection as input, right?

But it doesn't work at all.

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[elspub]

QS doesn't automatically take your selection as input. There's a
trigger you can set up to do this.

Go to QS prefs >> Triggers. Select "Quicksilver" in the sidebar on the
left. There's two triggers here,
the first is a trigger to activate QS in text entry mode,
the other activates QS with current selection in the command window.

Set up the Current Selection Trigger by checking the box next to it,
and then double clicking the blank/"none" in the space in the trigger
column. This should slide out the info drawer where you can set your
trigger keys.

If instead of seeing the "Select Current Selection in command window"
trigger you see "null", it means that your Catalog is not set to scan
for selections. Go to Catalog up at the top of the prerence window,
select Quicksilver in the sidebar on the lect, and make sure that, at
a minimum, "Proxy Objects", "Internal Commands", and "Internal
Objects", are all checked.

Then go back to the triggers pane and set up your trigger (you may
need to relaunch Quicksilver for the updated Catalog to fix the
Selection trigger).

The one thing that I can't get to work in Snow is that in the
Preferences >> Extras settings there's an option to "pull selection
from front application instead of Finder". I can't get that to work.
Right now QS Selection trigger only works with selected Finder objects.

[yoav]

Thanks. That did the trick.

[Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)]

On Oct 25, 8:50 pm, elspub <els...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The one thing that I can't get to work in Snow is that in the
> Preferences >> Extras settings there's an option to "pull selection
> from front application instead of Finder". I can't get that to work.
> Right now QS Selection trigger only works with selected Finder objects.

However, the Send to Quicksilver service in the Services menu does
work with more than just the Finder selection. Just assign a keyboard
shortcut to that in the operating system's Services Preferences
(inside the Keyboard Preferences), and you are good to go. The only
drawbacks to using the service instead of QS's own trigger are:

1. The focus will be in the first pane when using the service, whereas
QS's own trigger also automatically set the focus on the second pane.
All this really means is that if you want to run a different action
than the default one for whatever this selection, you will have to
press Tab once before you can choose the action you want.

2. The Keyboard Preferences GUI won't let you use the Escape key (⎋)
in a keyboard shortcut. However, if you really want to use ⌘⎋, you do
this via AppleScript using the following bit of code (note, it needs
to be all on one line, so remove the line breaks that Google Groups
introduces before you try to run it in AppleScript Editor):

tell application "System Events" to set value of property list item
"com.blacktree.Quicksilver - Quicksilver/Send to Quicksilver -
performService" of property list item "NSServicesStatus" of property
list file "~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist" to {key_equivalent:"@⎋",
enabled_context_menu:true, enabled_services_menu:true}

And yes, that @ symbol in the script code is correct. Oddly, in this
particular case the @ symbol is used to represent the Command key,
instead of the normal ⌘ symbol.

[elspub]

Just posted an applescript alternative to this. Seems to work in most
applications. Will get text from non-finder apps, or selected Files in
the Finder and bring them into QS.
http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/browse_frm/thread/e109bf7ac05fc9ed