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Is there a way to input text into a quick-entry form that takes that text to Google Translate, and then spit out a translation? You know how to-do list managers like OmniFocus and Things you can quickly add a to-do or when you press cmd-space for Spotlight Search? I have a feeling it would be through Automator, and saw the following question
Automator Service with Google Translate
but its all greek to me! How would the UI look like?
If you're not particularly bound to using Automator's "Ask for text" command, you could do this:
In your service, have the action item be "Run AppleScript" rather than "Run Shell Script"
Use this AppleScript:
on run {input, parameters}
set myvar to text returned of (display dialog "What F-stop do you want to set?" default answer "1.8")
repeat with myitem in input
set myscript to "exiftool -FNumber=\"" & myvar & "\" -overwrite_original_in_place \"" & (POSIX path of myitem) & "\""
do shell script myscript
end repeat
end run
My solution to mapping keyboard shortcuts to arbitrary services (as well as general workflows, application launches and scripts) is FastScripts.
Try it for free and pay if you feel you can or need more than 10 shortcuts to be active at the same time.
Best Answer
There are dashboard widgets that offer translation. https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/travel/languagetranslator.html Then I use a hot corner to quickly launch dashboard. It can also be done by a keyboard shortcut.