Thread: adding another option to Services menu

Check out "Automator", I read on the web where some have created their own services using automator scripts.

I was hoping for a technique that might be easier.

Can you be a bit more explicit? I am not sure what you are asking for. If a word is selected, the a look up item appears in the Services menu. If you control-click a word, a contextual menu appears with a look up item. If you put the cursor over a word and press Control-Command-d you will see a definition of the word. What else are you looking for?

Thanks for responding. I would like to be able to click on a French word, for example and be then directed to a French/English dictionary that I have in my applications. Of course, I can just have the dictionary open all of the time, and then go back and forth between the Safari app and the dictionary app, but it would just be a bit easier if I could access the dictionary through Safari ...

Maybe this will get you closer to what you want: Adding dictionaries to the built-in Dictionary Application in Leopard .

That might work out. Well, I'm going through the steps and even though the dictionary was labelled as French/English (followed by Asian script) and I relabelled it when I was going through the Dictunifier process, it turned out to only offer answers in an Asian, probably Chinese, script. So, perhaps I can only choose dictionaries, for my purposes, that have no Asian script in the title, ...

An odd thing, I downloaded Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française, 7ème édition (1835) but when I used it with a common French word, I received the error message: XDXF data parsing plug-in is not found!

I found a great site set up by Apple to help add other choices to the Services menu. It is: MacOSX Automation: Services As suggested by James B., it uses Automator.

Quote: Originally Posted by sashmo I found a great site set up by Apple to help add other choices to the Services menu. It is: MacOSX Automation: Services As suggested by James B., it uses Automator. Are you ...

Yes, I see it isn't an Apple site. The information is none-the-less, quite useful.