[TxMt] Commanding an outside app

[Niels Kobschätzki]

On Jun 23, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:

> On Jun 23, 2007, at 2:59 PM, John Laudun wrote:
>
>> The short of it is that I would like to use Textmate to do some  
>> transcription work. I have never been entirely happy with  
>> Transcriva, which I paid for, and while the power and convenience  
>> of Scrivener are appealing, I don't really want to buy yet another  
>> application for this purpose. I own, use, and love TextMate, and I  
>> have been very impressed with the things like the ScreenMate bundle.
>>
>> Now, I know I could write an AppleScript -- okay, I've never been  
>> any good with AS, but it's there -- I was just hoping that I could  
>> not and thus be able to work entirely within TextMate. All I need  
>> is a keystroke, or perhaps two, that would start and stop playback  
>> of an MP3 file. (I assume I would have to do this through  
>> QuickTime, but if there's a simpler command-line tool that could  
>> do this, that would be fine with me.) The only wrinkle I would  
>> like to add would be to be able to set an "auto-rewind" to the  
>> START or STOP command so that when playback commenced again it  
>> would start X seconds backwards from where it stopped. Setting  
>> this X in a config file of some kind would be fine with me.
>
> Take iTunes and Quicksilver - add iTunes-QS-triggers (bound to a  
> shortcut of your choice) and it should work.
> http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/control-itunes-with- 
> quicksilver-259373.php
> http://macapper.com/2007/05/09/how-to-control-itunes-with-quicksilver/
>
> And after you set up this - use quicksilver for anything else…one  
> of the mightiest (if not the mightiest) programs I've ever used

I oversaw the rewind part…that could be hard though - maybe there you  
will really need some applescript (if that'll work…i doubt it  
somehow) which you could bind to shortcuts via quicksilver or  
fastscript or something else

Niels