spotlight Questions
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I need to write a Spotlight Importer for an application that I've written in Swift, and am referring to the official Apple guide for Writing a Spotlight Importer.
It seems straightforward enough, ...
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Is there a way to run a shell script using Spotlight on Mac OS X 10.6? I would like to be able to invoke a shell script directly from Spotlight without opening up a terminal.
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Which command should I use to add a comment (from a file, or from the clipboard) to the 'Comments' section of a file (any file) in macOS?
These comments are used for Spotlight indexing and can obv...
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Is there something way to open "terminal" like Windows for Mac OS?. In window we can open the terminal direct from the folder. But in Mac i can't open from finder.Have to do from Spotlight.
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Is there any way in Spotlight to have a folder open in a Terminal window, either by providing an "Open in Terminal" option in search results, or (ideally) by holding down a key when selecting a res...
Dispirited asked 26/7, 2011 at 16:24
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Is it possible to extend spotlight's search feature to support additional commands?
For example, is it possible to define custom web search aliases, meaning I could type yt and it would provide re...
Maryrosemarys asked 5/8, 2014 at 3:3
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CoreSpotlight example:
https://applidium.com/en/news/ios9_search_api/
Spotlight Index Extension example:
http://apprize.info/apple/ios_9/53.html
Could you explain the difference between these 2...
Decisive asked 1/8, 2016 at 13:18
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I am implementing a Java application using the Swing GUI framework on macOS. When using the system look and feel and a screen menu bar, Swing automatically inserts a search field called Spotlight f...
Lisandralisbeth asked 6/3, 2017 at 8:18
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Unfortunately I could not find anything up-to-date online about this topic. Similar to the question stated here:
OS X Yosemite Spotlight extensions, is it possible by now to extend Spotlight on mac...
Ibbie asked 17/10, 2016 at 11:32
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It was mentioned that we can execute a shell script using spotlight renaming it as "myscript.command" as described here. But is it possible to pass a parameter to the script when calling ...
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I'm new to Swift programming, Recently I have implemented spotlight search for my app with Swift. Everything is working well and good however I"m getting few crash reports nowadays and I have no cl...
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I typically use the .markdown or .md extension for markdown documents. Unfortunately spotlight refuses to index them unless they have the .txt file extension.
I've seen a possible solution involvi...
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Example: App contains messages. User searches spotlight with string from message. Spotlight finds that app.
I have heard that spotlight can search app contents. But how to feed it to Spotlight on ...
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I'm developping an ios (3.1.3) application to manage contacts, tasks, activities, etc. These models are managed by core data and it works very well. Now I want to make all these items searchable in...
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It's a puzzle for me:
for Bundles/Frameworks version lays in Info.plist
for old applications it lays in resource fork
But today I found an executable (LaunchDaemon) which is new, has no resourc...
Collateral asked 23/2, 2015 at 9:47
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Today was the first time that I tried - and failed - to symbolicate a crash log on a newly bought MacBook (let's call this machine MB1). MB1 came with Mac OS X 10.9 pre-installed. I tracked the pro...
Becquerel asked 21/12, 2013 at 4:11
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I'm working on a new iOS App, and it has a pretty long name, so I display a shortened version on the homescreen by chaing the Bundle Display Name value in the Info.plist file. However, I want to di...
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While reorganizing my images, in anticipation of OSX Mavericks I am writing a script to insert tags into the xattr fields of my image files, so I can search them with Spotlight. (I am also editing ...
Dylan asked 2/8, 2013 at 5:2
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Around my image processing software I use exiftool to successfully shuffle around exif info from Cr2, TIFF, JPG files. The added tags, such as "keywords", are all visible in OSX (mountain lion) Fin...
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I would like to me able to set (and get) a custom metadata attribute for any file.
What is the best way to do this?
Thanks
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I found the command "mdls" which will show the metadata but I can't see how to delete it.
I want to get rid of the comments "kMDItemFinderComment", "kMDItemWhereFroms" from my files.
Is there a w...
Mcchesney asked 12/10, 2009 at 6:6
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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 t...
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How do I determine that mdworker (Spotlight) has completed its first scan? I'm basically looking for the point at which the little "." in the spotlight search icon would go away and you'd be able t...
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I have a need to spawn a window that will hover just above my main window in a cocoa application. I want this main window to allow the user to enter some text in an input box. All is well until the...
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I saw that we have access to calculator in Spotlight! And I wonder how an application can add custom answer like calculator do!
Thank you!
Forgather asked 8/9, 2011 at 21:30
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