Tell Gus what you think, but remember- you are in his home. Be a good guest.

Umm.... you know you DO have to turn these into products.

Especially the Menu Accelerator!

Posted by bobby at December 17th 2005 07:35 PM

I second that! The Menu Accelerator ROCKS!

Posted by Alex Kadis at December 17th 2005 08:56 PM

These are really cool Gus, particularly the menu accelerator. It would be slick if that could be turned into a Quicksilver plugin. So like cmd-space tab me tab menu-item-name enter would execute the menu item. I'm not sure it would work with the way quicksilver is set up though, as it seems to need things in its catalog.

Posted by jacob at December 18th 2005 07:21 AM

Oh, please, help. I get 'Can't open input server /Users/jcburns/Library/InputManagers/FlyOpts.bundle'..and building the bundle from the source code fails right at the end with a message about '/usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /Users/jcburns/cocoa/flyopts_src/src/lua/liblualib.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)'

Do I have to have a specific installation of lua running for this to work?

Posted by jcburns at December 18th 2005 07:26 AM

You want to put the whole FlyOpts folder in your ~/Libarary/InputManagers folder, not just the bundle.

To fix the lua library, run "ranlib" on it, then compile.

Posted by Gus Mueller at December 18th 2005 10:19 AM

how would one edit to change the editor to textwrangler or subethaedit?

Posted by jacob at December 18th 2005 06:31 PM

Is it just that one line in the source:

[self setEditorBundleIdentifier: @"com.barebones.textwrangler"];

Plus the string in flyopts.m? or are there other things to change?

Posted by jacob at December 18th 2005 06:40 PM

Feeling foolish, I ask how to activate the Menu Accelerator feature.

Posted by Jason Foster at December 22nd 2005 02:53 PM

woah! this it SO totally awesome.
I managed to compile it to use textmate "com.macromates.textmate, for those playing along at home"

This rox my sox! Thanks

Posted by Thomas Aylott at December 26th 2005 09:44 PM

There actually is an input manager I wrote for TextMate in source form located here.

It also uses the ODB editor API so it could be modified to work with the other text editors. I have yet to look at FlyOpt, but mine also work with WebView which Mail use for editing mail messages, and will do proper conversion to/from HTML (i.e. replace blockquote with > and back).

Here are some more instructions for those who want to try it out. Though I do plan to include it in binary form with TextMate (when I figure out how to best deal with the installation issue).

Posted by Allan Odgaard at December 27th 2005 06:09 PM

It seems to me that
1. The "Edit in [foo]" is more suitable as a Services action
2. Ditto on the Run as Lua (Check out the Script Editor actions, I really like Get Result of Applescript, which replaces the selection in place with the result)
3. The Menu Accelerator part can be replicated using Quicksilver without resorting to Input Manager hacks. ( See http://www.garoo.net/en/archives/2006/01/01/170945/ and then http://www.garoo.net/photos/2006/01/20060101-qs-05.jpg )

Never the less, very neat hacks. I've never looked at Input Managers before. When seeing the source, my mind was a bit boggled by the possibilities (and the dangers...).

Posted by Joachim Bengtsson at January 1st 2006 12:19 PM

i want to register at textmate.com. is there anyone who can help me this little probs?

Posted by erwin obiado at November 16th 2006 08:22 PM