My LaunchBar Actions So Far
I dipped my toes into LaunchBar Action development, after we recorded our Objective Development episode on Der Übercast.
Sadly I was not able to work on LaunchBar stuff earlier because I was busy with other things.
I find LB Actions very interesting. They are the answer to what Alfred calls Extensions and they are shaped in a similar fashion. Obviously things are different in LaunchBar and Alfred. I personally can’t recommend one over the other. Both are solid and fantastic apps, but it’s not the topic of this post to discuss these matters.
I wrote some basic LaunchBar Actions to get me started. I also took this as an opportunity to give my LaunchBar Scripts repository on GitHub a major overhaul. If you want to use the repo at this point, please be careful. I’m still figuring out the best way for you to pull updates easily so you always have the new, fresh, and shiny stuff.
My LaunchBar Actions So Far
As of writing this post I have created four Actions, with one being an accidental duplicate of an existing one.
- Expand Short URL: Give this action a short URL and it will expand every expansion and return all hops individually. The results are LaunchBar URLs. This means you can ⇧⌘V to paste in frontmost window and all the other things LaunchBar can do with a URL.
- Down For Everyone Or Just Me: This just checks DFEOJM and returns the result. (This is the duplicated one.)
- Set iTunes Repeat: Allows to set a specific iTunes repeat mode or toggle through all three choices. Accepts a string, too. So you can use “a” to set iTunes to repeat all.
- Color Picker: Brings up the OS X color picker. Accepts an optional hex string to launch the color picker with.
Feel free to send contributions to my repo as pull requests or report bugs as issue.