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For bash (likely what you’re using), your quoting options should look like this:

Particularly since you’re dealing with file names that you have no idea what they’ll be, these options will get you covered the most.

Thanks Vitor.

Can you use "{query}" in your command, and turn off all escaping options?  ' interrupts bash commands.

That did it. I could swear I tried the earlier. Oh well. Thank you.

I made a simple workflow a while back to rename tv show files using 'tvnamer'.

Most of the time files don't have the episode's name within their title and it's even more uncommon for there to be an apostrophe as well. So since Alfred doesn't offer escaping single quotes, I was wondering what I could do to fix this.

The workflow just has (one or more) files passed through to:

/usr/local/bin/tvnamer -q -c /Users/Daniel/.mytvnamerconfig.json {query}

When installing the first one and typing 'ss', Alfred re-shows and I don't get the AppleScript error you are describing.

 

Could you try temporarily creating a new user account on your Mac, switching to that user and trying from there?

Creating a new user did not remedy the issue either.

I'm not experiencing these errors, but the event handler seems like an underlying AppleScript Event error... have you tried restarting your Mac? Is it affecting other external trigger workflows?

Unfortunately, restarting my Mac did not fix it. I found two other trigger workflows to test and one of them produced the same error as mine.

This is my problematic workflow: download

The other problematic workflow: download

The one that actually works for me: download

After updating to 2.5 my workflow that uses the 'run trigger' funtion via Applescript no longer works.

After running:

tell application "Alfred 2" to run trigger "setup" in workflow "j.setup.display"

The debugger returns:

error "Alfred 2 got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000

Could you provide a bit more background? Which config file values weren't being recognized?

Both 'separator' and 'precision' I'm afraid. There was no error in the debug window.

Recently I upgraded to Mavericks and could not get the workflow to recognise the config file values. I had to edit 'alfred_convert.py' to actually change them.

Much like how you can disable workflows and web searches, how about an option to disable workflow objects?

Sometimes I find myself with objects that I don't want to immediately remove yet they still clutter up the workflow space. Along with an option to disable them you could add a toggle next to the top row of option buttons (debug, options, add) that makes them visible/invisible.

 

Yep, the problem is indeed that you’re not telling it to narrow down the results. A Script Filter is easier to build the more uniform it is, so here’s a starting point to help you with narrowing down. It expects every icon to be set as a png, for this very reason. To add more options, just set them at the top, in the options variable (one per line).

options="jdownloader
transmission
alfred
candybar"

echo "<?xml version='1.0'?><items>"
for item in $(echo "${options}" | grep -i ".*{query}.*"); do
  echo "<item uid='fix${item}' arg='${item}' valid='yes' autocomplete='${item}' type='file'>"
  echo "<title>${item}</title>"
  echo "<icon>${item}.png</icon>"
  echo "</item>"
done
echo "</items>"

Thanks mate. That looks a lot nicer than what I've been using. I'll be sure to clean up my other workflows too.

That’s likely something to do with the logic in the code; a Script Filter won’t narrow down results unless you set it up to, you have to tell it how to narrow down. Could you please post the workflow in question (or at least the Script Filter’s code), so we can take a look at it and try to figure out what’s wrong?

Sure. This the script filter:

cat << EOB

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<items>

<item uid="fixjdownloader" arg="jdownloader" valid="YES" autocomplete="pictures" type="file">
    <title>JDownloader</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/JDownloader.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixtransmission" arg="transmission" valid="YES" autocomplete="transmission" type="file">
    <title>Transmission</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/Transmission.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixalfred" arg="alfred" valid="YES" autocomplete="alfred" type="file">
    <title>Alfred</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/Alfred 2.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixcandybar" arg="candybar" valid="YES" autocomplete="candybar" type="file">
    <title>CandyBar</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/CandyBar.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fix4chan" arg="4chan" valid="YES" autocomplete="4chan" type="file">
    <title>4chan</title>
	<icon>4chan.png</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixdropbox" arg="dropbox" valid="YES" autocomplete="dropbox" type="file">
    <title>Dropbox</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/Dropbox.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixfinder" arg="finder" valid="YES" autocomplete="finder" type="file">
    <title>Finder</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixtrackpad" arg="trackpad" valid="YES" autocomplete="trackpad" type="file">
    <title>Trackpad</title>
	<icon>trackpad.png</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fix hyperdock" arg="hyperdock" valid="YES" autocomplete="hyperdock" type="file">
    <title>HyperDock</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Users/Daniel/Library/PreferencePanes/HyperDock.prefpane/Contents/Resources/HyperDock Helper.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixmplayerx" arg="mplayerx" valid="YES" autocomplete="mplayerx" type="file">
    <title>MPlayerX</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/MPlayerX.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixxtrafinder" arg="xtrafinder" valid="YES" autocomplete="xtrafinder" type="file">
    <title>XtraFinder</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/XtraFinder.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixitunes" arg="itunes" valid="YES" autocomplete="itunes" type="file">
    <title>iTunes</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/Applications/iTunes.app</icon>
  </item>

<item uid="fixremotedesktop" arg="remotedesktop" valid="YES" autocomplete="remote desktop" type="file">
    <title>Remote Desktop</title>
    <icon type="fileicon">/System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app</icon>
  </item>

</items>
EOB

I just pushed an update that supports this. The code that processes the input is in convert.py. I do some very naive string pre-processing to allow unit names to contain spaces, and it was also combining the number with its units.

Cheers mate.

I have a basic script filter that displays a number of results. Initially when you type the first letter of the result you want it starts to narrow it down but after that the results stay the same.

Any ideas?

What part of which file would I have to modify in order for it to allow a space between the value and unit (for every query, not just currencies)?

For example rather than

u 20usd to aud

I'd like it be

u 20 usd to aud

Thanks.

Cheers Shawn. I'll give that a shot.

Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the problem of "how can Alfred know if you want the sync workflow or other results containing 'sync'?".

If you, as the developer, set some flag to ensure that only the workflow is shown, you'd likely break things for any of your workflow users who want to use an app called "sync".

In such cases, a good solution is to use a keyword like ".sync" or "/sync", not just "sync". This will do what you want, and won't make other results inaccessible.

Currently I do have my sync workflow keyword with a period before it ".sync" to get around ths issue. But by "developers" I meant the team behind Alfred itself.

I am really not sure if script filters provide this feature already but I've made two images to illustrate my problem better:

What it currently does (mixes the script results in with the default results if you don't use a unique keyword):

What I'd like it to do:

I think we could get around this if the developers add the option for a script filter to only activate/show its results if the user presses 'enter' after they type the keyword. I too have this problem as I've set up a script filter called 'sync' and it also shows two applications that the 'sync' keyword applies to.

If I had the option in Alfred, I would gladly have it set to run the script filter only when I chose the 'sync' workflow in the results and press the 'enter' key.

I'd also like an option to disable it.

There is now. Use the "u>" command to open the config file, then change the "precision" option to a positive number and save it.

Awesome! Thank you so much.

Is there any way to change the length of the output?

Great script. I currently cannot use the automatic discovery linked above and though my own script is similar to yours, I lke your version a lot more.

One issue though, my computers are named in a conflicting manner (e.g. daniel-server) so I had to changed your script to use the '^' character rather than the dash character.

I changed the icon that the 'kill' command uses (both the one inside Alfred and the referenced PNG inside the workflow folder) yet instead of using the new icon it now reverts to the Activity Monitor icon used for the 'top' command.

Any idea why?

Please update to the latest version and let me know if it works for you.

 

Use the download link from the first page.

No dice.

Much obliged.

Terminal appears to see it