June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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Services
The Services menu is available as a submenu in a program’s Application menu. It allows the foreground application to invoke functions of other applications, usually while passing along user-selected text or objects to them.
The Service menu’s contents depend on the applications installed on your Mac and the services they offer to other applications. When installed, some applications such as Mail, Safari, and BBEdit, place entries in the Services menu. If an application provides more than one service, those items are placed in a submenu named after that application. For example, Mail offers two services from its Application menu, Send Selection and Sent To, as shown in Figure 1-40.
Figure 1-40. The Services menu
With some text selected in a TextEdit document, if you select TextEdit (the application menu)Services→Mail→Send Selection, Mac OS X copies that text and places it in the body of a new message in Mail. Then all you need to do is enter the email address of the person you want to send the text to and click on the Send button. (The Services→Mail→Send To option places the selected item in an email message’s To field.)
Some Services also offer key bindings, which makes it easy to send
some selected text to a
Bluetooth device
(Shift-
-B), or to create a new
sticky note (Shift- ...
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