Gus Mueller FlyOpts InputManager

by Thomas Aylott Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT

I just came across a truly amazingly sweet little thing.

How I found it

1. Of grasshoppers and O_S
2. Menu Accelerator
3. FlyOpts InputManager

What is it?

To quote the author:

A warning: input managers are bad… This bit of code [is] probably only useful to developers … it’s not like a product or anything. Think of it as sample code.

• Edit in BBEdit from any NSTextView
• Menu Accelerator- Marrying Search Kit and NSMenuItem in some sort of unholy union
• Execute as Lua in any NSTextView

He’s got a slick video of the Menu Accelerator and another one activating a shell script

To get it to work with TextMate ...

Pimp My textMate! Hack the UI of your favorite Mac apps!

by Thomas Aylott Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:50:00 GMT

I love the way Mac OS X applications work. It’s relatively simple to crack open an app and customize its UI.

Pimp my textMate

There have been a few people on the textMate mailing-list recently that have been interested it making the drawer white text on black. I popped open the nibs to see if I could make it happen. I couldn’t. But, I did do some fun stuff.

Let me show you how to do this right quick.

Read the rest of the article to find out the thrilling conclusion!

Twilight BG FG.tmTheme

by Thomas Aylott Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:38:00 GMT

Check out the latest TextMate theme.

Twilight BG FG.tmTheme

It’s called Twilight BG FG. All I did was

1. take the original Twilight theme and
2. convert all the colors to background colors
3. add transparency to the background colors
4. add back in the foreground colors
5. minor tweaks

All praise should go to the original author of the Twilight theme. I’m not sure who that is. but I will link to him as soon as I find out.

Caution: Most people absolutely hate underlined strings. If you are one of these people you can simply remove that in the theme editor yourself.