rknightuk Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Just checking out the 5.5 beta and the new grid view which is working great on my gif search workflow (https://alfred.app/workflows/rknightuk/gif-search/). What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to use grid view as the output of a script filter. Right now if I want to use a grid view as the search UI, I need to do `keyword > press enter > show grid view > type {searchterm}` whereas with the script filter I can type `{keyword} searchterm` and it immediately shows results in a list. It's possible I'm missing a way to do this already and if so please let me know 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_C Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 3 minutes ago, rknightuk said: What I'm wondering is if it would be possible to use grid view as the output of a script filter. See Script Source on the Alfred help page about Grid View—which provides some pointers. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rknightuk Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Thanks, I did see that option but that doesn't solve what I'm talking about (I might not be explaining myself well) - doing that I still need to type the keyword and hit enter, for it to then render the grid view. I can't, as best I can tell, type `gif searchterm` and it show the results in a grid view like I can with a script filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 @rknightuk The grid view is a separate view to the default results, so you'll need to configure a keyword (with no arg) connected to a grid view. This way, you'll access it using e.g. "gif↩︎searchterm" instead of "gif searchterm". The Grid View uses practically the same JSON, so transferring this from a Script Filter to the Grid View should be relatively seamless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rknightuk Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 @AndrewThanks Andrew, I have got it working with grid view and it's great, it's just that it's an extra keypress to start searching. It's not a massive thing at all and maybe it's just me who would be bothered by this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 @rknightuk Where is the extra keypress? You mean a ↩︎ instead of space? You could always connect up a hotkey directly to the grid view to get to it directly. universe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Are you going to submit the update to the gallery? Your workflow seems to be so perfectly suited to the grid view! Alan He and universe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rknightuk Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Yeah absolutely I will (if I can remember how to do an update) Alan He 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rknightuk Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Update has been pushed to GitHub now I remembered how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudometa Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 2 hours ago, rknightuk said: it's just that it's an extra keypress to start searching. It's not a massive thing at all and maybe it's just me who would be bothered by this. I kinda agree here. Even if it is just `gif<enter>query` instead of `gif<space>query` now, it feels a bit weird, since years of using Alfred has taught me that I have to type "keyword space query". Nonetheless: since Grid view also takes file paths as input, creating any kind of image search is super easy now, no code required, just using the Alfred building blocks 💪 universe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 36 minutes ago, pseudometa said: I kinda agree here. Even if it is just `gif<enter>query` instead of `gif<space>query` now, it feels a bit weird, since years of using Alfred has taught me that I have to type "keyword space query". The Grid View is a brand new paradigm, and completely separate view in Alfred. Using a keyword<space> e.g. "gif<space>query" can't take you out of the default result context automatically, as this would wreak havoc when there could be multiple unrelated default result matches. It'll become second nature before you know it... keyword<space> = stay in context keyword<enter> = new context pseudometa and universe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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