Launchy command string for Entourage

[Scott Heath]

A Mozilla extension called Launchy can launch any application when you click
on a link, but it works by default with Windows. The author has provided a
utility to generate .xml files allowing it to find applications in Linux or
OSX by supplying their path, but the path returned by the Finder doesn't
work, and Entourage doesn't appear to use /Contents/MacOS/ standard (or, if
it does, I can't figure it out).

Does anyone here know what the Unix command to run Entourage might be (I
think that might work)?

 

[Diane Ross]

A Mozilla extension called Launchy can launch any application when you click
on a link, but it works by default with Windows. The author has provided a
utility to generate .xml files allowing it to find applications in Linux or
OSX by supplying their path, but the path returned by the Finder doesn't
work, and Entourage doesn't appear to use /Contents/MacOS/ standard (or, if
it does, I can't figure it out).

Does anyone here know what the Unix command to run Entourage might be (I
think that might work)?

You might want to try LaunchBar. It's great for launching any application.
Then there is Keyboard Maestro, DragThing and many other Mac Launchers. Just
check Version Tracker for download links:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/>

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

A Mozilla extension called Launchy can launch any application when you click
on a link, but it works by default with Windows. The author has provided a
utility to generate .xml files allowing it to find applications in Linux or
OSX by supplying their path, but the path returned by the Finder doesn't
work, and Entourage doesn't appear to use /Contents/MacOS/ standard (or, if
it does, I can't figure it out).

Nope, Entourage is not a packaged application

Does anyone here know what the Unix command to run Entourage might be (I
think that might work)?

You have several options, You can use the "open" command or you can even
run AppleScripts from the command-line ("osascript" command). You can
use man to have more information about either options.

Open is fairly easy though, you can try something like:
open /Volumes/TiGris/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Microsoft\
Entourage

An Applescript could parse information though,

In any case, I would try OnMyCommand instead. With this contextual menu
item, you could launch command-lines from ANY application (not only
Mozilla - and it's free...):
http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/


Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Open is fairly easy though, you can try something like:
open /Volumes/TiGris/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Microsoft\
Entourage

Sorry... my setup is a bit complicated. Typicallaly the command would
rather look like:

open /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Microsoft\ Entourage

Corentin

 

[Scott Heath]

Woops. I'm talking about a Mozilla extension called "Launchy", not a generic
application launcher. What Launchy does is launch another application from
within the browser while passing the appropriate arguments to the new app.
So if you click on a link with a mailto: value, it will launch the app with
the mailto: string as a command argument. I was asking if there's some name
the Entourage executable is known by in the OSX command line interpreter,
but I think what I might need is an AppleScript that will accept an
argument, strip off the 'mailto:', and tell Entourage to open a new mail
document with the To: value filled in.

Otherwise, I could use the 'copy address' option in my browser, switch to
Entourage, open a new document, then paste the address in. I'm not sure how
a new launcher would help with that.

 

[Diane Ross]

Woops. I'm talking about a Mozilla extension called "Launchy", not a generic
application launcher. What Launchy does is launch another application from
within the browser while passing the appropriate arguments to the new app.
So if you click on a link with a mailto: value, it will launch the app with
the mailto: string as a command argument. I was asking if there's some name
the Entourage executable is known by in the OSX command line interpreter,
but I think what I might need is an AppleScript that will accept an
argument, strip off the 'mailto:', and tell Entourage to open a new mail
document with the To: value filled in.

Otherwise, I could use the 'copy address' option in my browser, switch to
Entourage, open a new document, then paste the address in. I'm not sure how
a new launcher would help with that.

You just need to set the default application for email to Entourage. The
preference to set the default email application in Panther is no longer in
System Preferences. Apple now requires you to make this setting in Safari or
Mail preferences. However, there are freeware applications you can use to
set preferences:

IC-Switch

More Internet

MISFOX (MIssing Internet Settings for X)

 

[mmmmark]

Woops. I'm talking about a Mozilla extension called "Launchy", not a generic
application launcher. What Launchy does is launch another application from
within the browser while passing the appropriate arguments to the new app.
So if you click on a link with a mailto: value, it will launch the app with
the mailto: string as a command argument. I was asking if there's some name
the Entourage executable is known by in the OSX command line interpreter,
but I think what I might need is an AppleScript that will accept an
argument, strip off the 'mailto:', and tell Entourage to open a new mail
document with the To: value filled in.

Otherwise, I could use the 'copy address' option in my browser, switch to
Entourage, open a new document, then paste the address in. I'm not sure how
a new launcher would help with that.

Hi Scott,

You might benefit from "bookmarklets". Do a google search for them. Here
is my favorite to allow Safari to call Entourage (default mail app). It is
a javascript that will email a link to the current page to someone. What
you can do is create a javascript "button" in your browser (like on your
button bar) that has this exact text in it:

mailto:?SUBJECT=&BODY=javascript:location.href='mailto:?SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+escape(location.href)

Just take an existing bookmark, for example, and copy this into it as the
address. Name the bookmark something like "Email". When you click it, it
will copy the link into the body and is ready for you to enter the TO field.

I've seen lots of these around the net. Maybe this is the sort of thing you
need.

-Mark