Custom Trigger Issue: SL 10.6.1 running B56a7

[Ian]

Hi, everyone:

Hope someone has run into this and has a solution: I've looked all
over the place and found similar issues whose fixes did not work for
this problem. Here it is:

1. I create a custom trigger to execute a web search (say YubNub, for
example)

2. I create the trigger as I did under b54

3. Trigger does not immediately function (this issue has been well-
noted). I deactivate the trigger and re-activate it: trigger works
normally.

4. Quicksilver restarts, usually because I restart the computer.

5. Trigger disappears: web search address replaced with <null>;
trigger effectively gone, even though it has a space on the custom
trigger list.

Now, I'm sure some other intermediate Quicksilver users can
sympathize, but going without these triggers is like losing one's
sense of touch. I use triggers to go to wikipedia, hulu, google (all
services), library catalogs, foreign language dictionaries...that's
just off the top of my head.

A fix for this would earn my heartfelt gratitude. Thanks for your
time,
Ian

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

It seems that β56a7 has some bugs regarding triggers. You can try
quitting QS, dragging ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/
Triggers.plist to the desktop, and then restarting to see if you can
now set up your triggers properly. If that doesn't work, you might
just have to hang on for a new build to come out with a fix.

[mushroom_daddy]

I'm experiencing exactly the same under 10.5.8 (G4 PPC) with the β56a7
build. It was something of a relief to see this post as I now realise
it's probably not down to my own inadequacies. Very frustrating, rapid
web searches are one of my favourite uses of QS

On Sep 19, 2:31 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)"

[Timmy]

Jon -

Are you or anyone able to shed any light on when a new QS build may be
available? It'd be great to get a few of these SL / β56a7 issues
nailed, such as large type disappearing fir example. I quite
understand if not - just thought I'd ask. Thanks to you any everyone
for such great work in keeping QS going.

Tim.

[Chris Cairns]

Timmy wrote:
> Jon -
>
> Are you or anyone able to shed any light on when a new QS build may be
> available?

only Etienie can answer that

[adamrice]

I've been having the same issue—I had a keyboard command set up to
bring up Google. I wound up creating an "Open Google" script, and
creating the trigger "Open Google | Run"

The script is dead simple:
--
tell application "Safari" -- you can replace this with Firefox, of
course
open location "http://google.com/"
activate -- this brings it to the foreground
end tell
--
I am sure there is a clever way to pass an argument from QS into the
script, which would use the argument as the search key. If that were
saved as an action, it would let you do something like "[type random
text] | find on google". But I haven't gotten that far.

[adamrice]

Ok, that was easy. The following script takes whatever is in the first
pane and searches Google for it:
--
using terms from application "Quicksilver"
on process text inputText
tell application "Safari"
open location "http://google.com/search?q=" & inputText
end tell
end process text
end using terms from
--
Save this as Google.scpt (or whatever) to [username]/Library/
Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions and relaunch QS. You can
obviously customize the Open Location line for Wikipedia, etc. To use
it, go into text-entry mode in the first pane of QS, and type Google
in the second pane.

[Chris Cairns]

you can enter your search query in this form:

g whatever ---remember to put space after g
w whatever ---remember to put space after w
................
...........
(only one at a time, currently )

and use a script like this:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/872430/Quicksilver%20Scripts/searchesQS.scpt

That way you won't have to clutter your actions tab with many scripts.

Also, you can use one shortcut and be able to use all search sites
simply be entering the initial letter like g, w etc if you decide to use
a dialog box to enter search query instead of using Quicksilver (That
will save you from pressing keys to activate Quicksilver and entering in
text mode) like this:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/872430/Quicksilver%20Scripts/searchesDirect.scpt

[adamrice]

Good call. I wound up tidying that first script a little, but it works
like a charm.