alfred cannot search application, only search web result.
I cannot find anywhere to solve it.
what can I try?
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Did you disable the spotlight index?
Alfred relies on the same OS X metadata index as Spotlight. As such, it's important for you to let Spotlight run on your Mac to maintain an index of the files on it.
Turning off Spotlight indexing will still allow you to use Alfred as a web launcher but you'll no longer be able to find files on your Mac.
Source : https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/spotlight/
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I think you need to check the settings in the picture, especially the Search Scope，you need to allow search the macOS Applications folder
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In Windows 10 it is possible to require the OS to index a specific location such as the D drive when a USB Key is inserted.
Is it possible to this in UWP ,and how?
The idea is to request permission from the user with a FolderPicker, and if granted, instruct the OS to index the location of the picked location.
Thank you!
UWP does not currently provide APIs for indexing drive files.
File indexing is usually established when a user begins to access a file. As you have done, you can use FolderPicker to let the user pick the file and the system will create an index for it, but the UWP app cannot interfere with this process
Best regards.
StorageLibrary.RequestAddFolderAsync
here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.storagelibrary.requestaddfolderasync
This adds the folder to the library, which gets indexed, as desired. This seems to be the only possible solution as of now.
Credits to Peter Torr-MSFT
I often have Safari open while working on a project in Xcode, looking up stuff on Stack Overflow and the like. A few times, I've searched something in to the web address/search engine field of Safari, and a word or two from what I typed in and it will be entered into the Search Navigator in Xcode, even though I didn't type it in there. It doesn't do it every time.
EDIT: Text entered in through the Search Navigator can pop up in Safari too.
This doesn't cause any problems, but the words it picks don't seem to have any relevance, and I'm curious as to why this oddity is happening.
I'm running Xcode 4.6.3, Safari 6.0.3, and Mac OS X 10.8.4
Is this a glitch? A half-baked feature?
What you are seeing is the OS X Global Find Pasteboard in action. Anywhere the private class NSFindPanel is invoked (typically in conjunction with a text field) this global pasteboard will get invoked and provides a single, central location for 'find' metadata which includes the most recent query:
In addition to communicating search strings via the find pasteboard, the standard Find panel for NSTextView also communicates search option metadata, including case sensitivity and substring matching options. This metadata is stored in a property list as the NSFindPanelSearchOptionsPboardType value on the global find pasteboard. As such, third party applications may store additional keys in this property list to communicate additional metadata as desired to support the various search options common to many third-party applications' Find panels.
from Section "Find Panel Search Metadata" in the NSTextField documentation on developer.apple.com
I believe the design intent to be, if you've performed a search in one app, there is a reasonably high probability that you'll be doing the same search in another app, so the global find pasteboard acts as a syncing mechanism between Find fields on disparate apps. For those coming from other operating systems, this would appear to be very odd behavior where the find capabilities of an app are very much sandboxed to their own process -- the most recent search term is an app-specific search term, not this global shared space.
As far as replication is concerned, you can always trigger the reported behavior by coping text to the clipboard, then pasting it into a Find field. When you switch from application to application the global find pasteboard will update the find NSFindPanel. This is why you see it going both ways between Xcode and Safari -- as both use NSFindPanel, both reference the global find pasteboard and sync up when the next time they get focus.
Unfortunately, this is not a user-configurable kind of setting; all NSFindPanels have this behavior and there is not a System Preferences or defaults preference you can set to change the behavior. Consider filing an issue with Apple at bugreport.apple.com
FITS files can contain several images (or more generally n-dimensional arrays) and tables.
Is there a way to automatically open images e.g. with the ds9 application and tables with the TOPCAT application when I double-click the FITS file in the Mac OS X Finder?
I'm thinking of something like FITS Explorer from AstroSoft, but free and nicely integrated into the Mac (i.e. Finder, Quicklook).
If such a thing doesn't exist, what is your workflow for browsing and opening images and tables in FITS files?
I just found QLFits which is a Mac OS X Finder QuickLook plugin that display some FITS header info and an image simply by hitting SPACE after selecting a FITS file in the Finder.
The same guy wrote FITSImporter:
a Spotlight plugin that allow you make spotlight queries against dedicated FITS header keywords. It provides also additional information in the "Get Info" panel of the Finder (⌘-I).
Both are open source (GPL licence), the code is available on github: QLFITS, FITSImporter.
They are not perfect though (e.g. I didn't see a way to get at the different extensions in a multi-extension FITS file, although the description says there is; and you can't use QLFits to browse tables) and development seems to have stopped, but still well worth a try!
Apart from recommending you QLFits, you could try to write an AppleScript application, or Automator action using any scripting language, which explored the FITS file, and sent table-based FITS to TOPCAT, and image-based FITS to DS9, and make that application the default for FITS files.
How can I create a spotlight importer for an OS X app that creates a spotlight tool like the calculator spotlight tool? It's the tool where you type in an equation and the calculator app displays the result. I want to do something like that, but I've never tried to use a spotlight importer so I don't know how I'd make that work. Is it possible to do this to begin with?
I don't need specific code, just a general idea of how I'd do that. I might even be thinking wrongly with taking an importer approach, but I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure this isn't possible to do with a Spotlight importer, which is the only official interface for Spotlight integration that Apple provides.
A Spotlight importer runs only when Spotlight indexes your files (e.g. when a file of your type changes), not when Spotlight actually runs your search queries, so you have no way to directly "react" on the user's input like the built-in calculator does.
It might be possible to hack into the Spotlight UI with code injection, using something like SIMBL but that would be quite difficult and fragile (could break with system updates, etc.).
Alfred is worth a look. Its advanced calculator feature in the free version uses GCMathParser. The user pops up the interface with a hotkey, types the equation, and it displays the result immediately. Pressing enter copies the result to the clipboard and dismisses the box. Pretty slick, in my opinion.
With the Power Pack you can build your own extensions with shell scripts or AppleScripts, though most of them seem to use Growl to display the result. Here's one that sounds similar to what you're trying to accomplish: http://thefeverdog.tumblr.com/post/10308253571/currency-converter
I'm guessing you won't use Alfred because you'd like to build this yourself, but you may find the user interface inspiring nonetheless.
I am trying to create a script that will open an application in a specific "space". So let's say I am on space 1 working in the terminal and then I want to be able to open safari in space 4. Is there a way to do this?
I have done some searching and found only ways to set the system profile options. Maybe I should tell you my end goal in case what I am attempting is not possible.
I use a laptop and plugin in to multiple stations, home, office, and travel. I want to create different window layouts for each one. So I will need an apple script telling it to open applications in varios spaces and different dimensions. I hope this makes sense. Ask me for clarification if it doesn't thanks!
PS the answer doesn't necessarily have to be any applescript I just thought that would be the easiest way :)
Here's a list of applescript commands for Spaces. There's a couple things there that might help you.
It is possible to do some scripting of application Space preferences by using the scripting interface to the System Events.app. See the answer to a similar question here.
The easiest way I've found is via GUI scripting. Make sure the Spaces menu is active on the upper right of your computer. That lists the spaces by number. You can then just write a GUI script to select the menu item of the space you wish. That will switch to that space. Then do an activate Applescript to open the application there.
Let me know if you need sample code demonstrating this. I have some in Python + Appsscript that does this but I should be easily able to convert it back to Applescript proper if you need it.