On 22. Oct 2006, at 14:18, Andy Herbert wrote:
I've been trying to come up with a solution to creating shell scripts within Textmate and creating a widget on the Dashboard layer to call the script with references to any files or URLs passed to it, and I have eventually come up with a Textmate widget & bundle to do all this.
I've created a screencast (sorry - no audio) to show the various features of the bundle and the widget, and it can be found at: [...]
This indeed looks pretty awesome!
A few things I noticed when watching the screencast:
* Just double click the bundle or drag it onto the TM icon, then it will go into the right location *and* TM will load it (so you don’t need to reload bundles after install) * I do that !env⇥ a lot myself in shell and have to fix shell → bash, so now I made the snippet special case that :) * Probably when creating a widget from within TextMate, it should prompt the user for a name, since you always want to provide one (and if not, it’s just return with the default), which is less work than that click the ‘i’ + edit + click done. * Menu titles should be Capitalized. So Create Widget From Document (yeah, I would shorten the action descriptions as well) * Widget as a bundle name is maybe a tad ambiguous -- how about Widget Factory or some such.
Can I link to your screencast from my blog?