PopSearch 1.3.1

[Michael Guillermo Marquez]

Hi everyone!

I just installed your extension for Safari 5.0.1 a few days ago; and somehow I am having difficulty to just getting it work. I have the option of using the command key checked; and the letter "k" is in the field for the "hotkey". It simply will not turn on; and I have tried other various ways to turn it on. If the option of using the command key is unchecked, and there is no letter for the hotkey field, how do we the users activate it? May you please let me and the other users know which Safari Extensions may interfere with your extension in any way? I have 24 extensions installed, that's including yours; and about 7 of them are not enabled. I got all of them from the Safari Extension Gallery. Thanks for the help! I really look forward to using your extension extensively.

Best regards,

Mike G. Marquez

[Chul]

Hi Mike,

Have you tried other key combinations? Perhaps you have some program
(not necessarily a Safari extension) that has already registered
Command-K as a hotkey. Try different letters in the hotkey field, with
and without the Use Command Key option. You could try an Option key
combo (such as Option-J) if other combos don't work. To enter such a
combo in the PopSearch area of Safari's extension manager, just type
it into the hotkey field. It will appear as a non-English letter or
symbol, just as if you used that Option+character combo in a text
editor or word processor.

Also, you may sometimes need to reload the currently open tab(s) to
get a new hotkey assignment to work.

If all else fails, please try uninstalling and reinstalling PopSearch.
If it still doesn't work, please let me know.

Best regards,
Chul


On Sep 6, 7:14 pm, Michael Guillermo Marquez <m2gmarq...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Michael Guillermo Marquez]

Hi Chul,

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it 2 days ago; and I just tried your suggestion/advice of Option-J with still no success. My MacBook Pro is a late 2007 model. Thanks for the quick reply! It's great and relieving to know someone is working on a holiday like Labor Day.

Best regards,

Mike

[Canisbos Computing]

Hi Mike,

Oh, I'm not working, I do this for fun. But it's very strange that PopSearch doesn't work for you.

Does the hotkey not work no matter what web page you are viewing?

Have you tried temporarily disabling other extensions that use hotkeys? One of them may be capturing PopSearch's hotkey before PopSearch has a chance to "hear" it.

For that matter, have you had success with other extensions that use hotkeys? If you don't have any others that use hotkeys, please try my extension TabKeys to see if the same problem affects it.

One thing that might help me troubleshoot your problem is having a look at your Safari preferences file, where PopSearch's settings are stored. The file is at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. I don't think it contains any potentially sensitive info other than a list of recent search terms, but just to be safe, you could copy just the one key that stores PopSearch's settings and paste that key into a new plist file using Property List Editor, and then email that file to me. That key is the one named ExtensionSettings-com.canisbos.popsearch-ZANVZTSER6.

Chul

[Limitless]

I know for a fact you have to be looking at an actual web page for it
to work, it simply won't activate on a blank new tab.

[Canisbos Computing]

Yes, that is correct. All Safari extensions that are meant to do something in tabs have the same limitation. Unless there is an HTML document loaded in the current tab, the extension's code doesn't get loaded. (Furthermore, the document must be served by a web server, not just an HTML file you open on your computer.)

Chul

[Limitless]

so a blank page hosted in your public folder of your dropbox would get
around that then ^_^

Thanks for the info

[Canisbos Computing]

Yep. Or one hosted by your Mac with Web Sharing.

Bonus tip: If you have a (blank or otherwise) web page that you control, you can have PopSearch automatically open on it if you give the web page the title "AutoPopSearch".

Chul