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<FONT FACE="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>You can do this by using ICeCoffEE<BR>
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On 12/29/05 8:58 AM, net kat <netkat@comcast.net> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>OK, well that illuminates...then, anyone could write a service which taps into OSX<BR>
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too bad you can't opt to invoke services using Control-click when you're right there on the file or snippet of whatever..I hate cruising up to the File menu to get 'em.<BR>
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On Dec 29, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Norman Cohen wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Gill Sans, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>The "conduit" is the hook that the programmer uses to access the code available as a service. The actual functionality is something that is left for the programmer to develop. For example, with Word Service, the programmers at Devon Technologies <a href="http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.php"><http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.php></a> wrote a bunch of code to do all the formatting and other tasks available. By using the Apple defined methods, they are able to advertise these services to other programs that support services. There are a number of services provided by Apple (e.g. Grab) that can be thought of as being "under the hood" since everyone gets them as part of OS X, but those programs are using the same service conduit as Devon and Omni and others have used to advertise their services.<BR>
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