Re: [MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl extension idea

[Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>]

At 23:00 Uhr +0200 15.04.1999, Vicki Brown wrote:
> At 15:33 -0500 4/15/99, Matthew Wickline wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be neat to have a MacPerl extension that would
> > let you save scripts as contextual menu modules? There could
> > be an option to save it standalone or macper-app
> > dependant...
>
> Michael Schürig was working on something like this about a year ago, but
> the web page reference I have has gone "404". Michael's project
>worked with
> programs that understood the Word Services Protocol.

A couple of months ago I moved to my own domain:
<http://www.schuerig.de/michael/>.


> I admit a "save as Contextual Menu thingie" would be cool (this is
>not the
> technical Perl term "thingie" but a generic "thingie" :-)

You can achieve exactly the same result with a combination of CMScript,
my CM plugin that handles AppleScripts _and_ Word Services Servers, and
Perl WS, my MacPerl extension that makes scripts into Word Services
Servers. It works nicely with applications that have the necessary
support for AppleEvents, but there are cases where it'll fail.

As I'm slowly migrating to Linux I'm no longer doing that much on the
Mac, but I've made the source code available and will do bug fixes if
the need arises.


Michael



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