[TxMt] Textmate widget & bundle

[marios]

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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:
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/andy.herbert/Textmate-widget.mov
> 
> Features shown in the screencast include:
> 
> The actual widget is included inside the bundle and is installed in
> ~/Library/Widgets/ the first time you call the bundle command to create
> a new widget using the currently opened document.
> 
> To call a script using the widget click on the Textmate icon, to pass
> files to the script as $1, $2.. etc drag files from Finder on to the
> Textmate icon, you can also drag a URL on to it if you have a
> web-browser open, this too is passed as $1.
> 
> If when the script is called there is any output a green icon will
> appear on the widget, and when this is clicked you will be able to view
> the output log, same goes with any errors the script throws up, except
> this time the icon is red.
> 
> Flipping the widget over will allow you to edit the widget's label or
> modify the script the widget uses. All scripts used by the widget are
> held in ~/Library/Application Support/Textmate/Widget Scripts/ and are
> deleted when you remove the widget.
> 
> Both the output and error logs are stored in ~/Library/Logs/, each
> widget has a separate file, and is deleted and re-created each time each
> script is called.
> 
> The widget bundle can be found at:
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/andy.herbert/Widget.tmbundle.zip
> 
> I hope it might be useful to someone else on this list.
> 
Yes it is, It does complement a need I have, for a quick and easy way
for batch renaming some files in a custom manner.
I'm not using the widgets so much, but the do come in handy sometimes.
This one definitely is.

Thanks, for posting this here, and doing this.


regards, marios
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