rafegoldberg

Awesome workflow my man! I've only run in to one issue– when trying to zip a folder the workflow throws an error:

[ERROR: action.script] 0:149: execution error: Can’t make text items 1 thru -2 of "testfolder" into type text. (-1700)

JSYK: I'm running the workflow in Alfred V3; not sure if that might be the issue. Either way, it seems like it's probably a minor error to fix, but I'm hardly an Applescript expert so I'll leave that to you... Anyway, thanks again for the dope flow!

Now this is an awesome idea...

@@Andrew any update on this perchance? To elaborate: when increasing or decreasing the "Result Padding" the idea would be to keep the line spacing between the result title and subtext consistent (relative to their set font sizes) while extra padding is added or removed from above and below both lines of the result's text. If that description doesn't make sense here's a visual on what I mean:

I know it's a small change. But I think it would bring outsized benefits: since Alfred revolves around a search-and-scan interface, any increase in the readability of the result-list will bring a big benefit to users as they digest multiple results, search out a single item among many, etc. Changing the way the "Result Padding" option calculates and distributes vertical space would help draw a clearer distinction between each result, drastically improving Alfred's legibility and thus it's usability.

But it's just a thought!

+1 for this, if only for ease of implementation as @andrewning suggests!

Hey Vera. To answer your questions: 

— I was using 2.0.2 as of an hour ago; I am using 2.0.3 since it was released today. 

— I'm running OS X 10.8.3 with a 2.5GHz processor, 4GB of memory, and Intel HD Graphics 3000 (384 MB)

— The only third party software I can think of that might impact/interact with graphics is TotalSpaces

Beyond that:

— I hadn't run into this issue until I made certain changes to Alfred's theme. Among these

• I remember adjusting the opacity and color of the border and the background.

• I also changed the border radius of Alfred from none to something higher right before this issue popped up.

— I'm not quite sure, but it seemed the issue only occurred when adding applications to the buffer.

— When adding items from Alfred's file browser I did not experience the same bug. (I remember testing a few PDFs from the file browser and everything worked okay.) 

— Some combination of toggling Alfred's visibility, adding files to the buffer from the file browser, and removing a file or two from the buffer would eventually reorient the icons.

— Also of note, I haven't run into this issue again since that day!

Thanks for getting in touch. Let me know if you figure out what was causing it; I'm kind of intrigued.

Hi Rafe,

 

We've only come across this with one user before and his issue was fixed with one of the early v2 beta builds. As such, I'd love to get some more information from you, which might help us identify what could cause this in this instance:

 

- Are you using the latest version 2.0.2?

- What are your Mac's specs, including graphics card (from the About This Mac menu)

- Do you have any third-party background apps that may have an impact on graphics?

- If you create a second profile on your Mac, do you see the same behaviour?

 

Any other information you might think is relevant would be helpful

 

Thanks in advance,

Vero

So I haven't experienced this before and I've been using the latest version of Alfred 2, but when I changed my theme this morning and then added some applications to Alfred's buffer, the icons were all upside down. This doesn't happen when adding icons from Alfred's file browser, and they get reset (so that they're upside up) if you toggle Alfred's visibility a couple of times. Not a big deal at all, but I'm miffed!

MIDNIGHT

COLLECTION

massiveMidnight SUBTLE

Midnight is a dark, high-contrast, minimal theme for Alfred featuring two different styles, each in two sizes.

Great for design snobs, late-night Alfred use, or for any Alfred aficionado with accessibility considerations.

miniMidnight CLASSIC 

CLASSIC                                                                                                                                                                                       SUBTLE

miniMidnight          massiveMidnight                                             miniMidnight          massiveMidnight

DOWNLOAD                          DOWNLOAD                                                              DOWNLOAD                            DOWNLOAD

+1 for this idea.

</items> seems to be missing at end

 

My 2 cents

Keen eye, but as I'd mentioned, I've abridged the XML output for the sake of brevity (I have quite a few favorites) so the closing </items> tag actually is generated correctly by the Applescript. Thanks nonetheless!

Just a heads up, bigluck has already made a workflow that returns Transmit faves.

 

Also, ExtensionUtils has been a constantly evolving and updated thing. It's not called just Workflows. I have a newer version available on my blog, dferg.us. Documentation and a more updated version can be found there.

 

I also need to push a few more updates, but I have to get a few more things done in preparation for Alfred 2.

Hey David! Thanks for pointing me towards bigluck's workflow. This was really more of a learning exercise for me as I don't do much coding beyond the limited PHP/JS confines of web development and design. But I took a quick look at the updated "Workflows" functions and they look great. Anyways, I'm sure you've heard it before but once again: thanks for all the work you've put in to Alfred!

I've been working on a brief workflow that grabs a list of FTP favorites from Transmit and serves them up as Alfred results. Ideally, actioning any one of these results would mount the specified server as a external drive. So far though, I've been unable to get Alfred to load the generated XML as results. Below, I've provided some details that might be useful to pin-point the issue:

The workflow is PHP-based, though it also relies on a bit of Applescript to fetch the list of favorites from Transmit. (Much of the code & concepts come courtesy @jdfwarrior!) I thought the issue might be related to the Applescript – returning invalid XML, or maybe nothing at all. I tried writing the generated XML to a file (instead of echoing it back to Alfred, as per the code below.) The output seemed valid but I am still unable to get Alfred to load the XML into its results list! It just gets stuck on the pre-defined loading text.

I hope this all makes sense. Any and all help is much appreciated!

PHP:

/* FOLLOWING CODE IS ENTERED DIRECTLY INTO ALFRED'S "SCRIPT FILTER"
** EDITOR AND ISN'T WRAPPED IN <?PHP?> TAGS. THE FILTER REQUIRES A
** SPACE-SEPARATED ARGUMENT, THE INTERPRETER IS SET TO PHP, AND I
** LIMITED THE 'ESCAPE {QUERY}' OPTION TO DOUBLE QUOTES AND DOLLARS.
*/
require_once('extension_utils.php');
$utils = new ExtensionUtils();
$results = array();
$query = stripcslashes("{query}");
$favesGet = exec('osascript transmit_actions.scpt');
$favesObj = explode(', ',$favesGet);
$i = 0;
foreach( $favesObj as $fave ):
	$i++;
	$item = array(
		'uid' => 'fave-'.$i,
		'arg' => $fave,
		'title' => $fave,
		'subtitle' => 'Mount '.$fave.' as volume...',
		'icon' => 'icon.png',
		'valid' => 'yes'
	);
	array_push( $results, $item );
endforeach;

if ( count( $results ) > 0 ):
	echo $xml;
endif;

/* IN ORDER TO TEST/DEBUG THE XML OUTPUT
** I REPLACED THIS FINAL IF-STATEMENT WITH
** THE FOLLOWING CODE:
*/
// $xml = $utils->arrayToXml($results);
// $path = "output.txt";
// $file = fopen($path, 'w') or die("can't open file");
// fwrite($file,$xml);
// fclose($file);

Applescript:

-- FILE NAME: transmit_actions.scpt
--
-- APPLESCRIPT THAT RETURNS A LIST OF THE
-- NAMES OF FTP FAVORITES FROM TRANSMIT:
---------------------------------------------
set names to {}
tell application "Transmit"
	repeat with fave in favorites
		set faveName to name of fave
		set names to names & faveName
	end repeat
end tell
tell application "Transmit" to quit
return names

XML Output: (Abbreviated and formatted...)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items>
	<item uid="fave-1" arg="Christian et Christine">
		<title>Christian et Christine</title>
		<subtitle>Mount Christian et Christine as volume...</subtitle>
		<icon>icon.png</icon>
		<valid>yes</valid>
	</item>
	<item uid="fave-2" arg="Clifford Wright">
		<title>Clifford Wright</title>
		<subtitle>Mount Clifford Wright as volume...</subtitle>
		<icon>icon.png</icon>
		<valid>yes</valid>
	</item>