I made a small utility app to be run alongside Xojo. All it does is register a global hotkey and send Xojo an IDE Script when triggered. This allows me to run my code expander script easily but I have to remember to run this utility whenever Xojo launches.
Is there some magic that will cause my utility to launch whenever Xojo does? (on mavericks)
Failing that I could make the utility a login/startup item and have it always running. In general I like to close unused apps and Realbasic apps used to idle at 0.5-1%, but now Xojo apps look to idle at 0.0%. Still, I’d prefer to only have it launch when Xojo does or is startup item the only way?
Also, this feature request for IDE Script hotkeys is the ideal solution <https://xojo.com/issue/4070> add your votes And fyi I got the global hotkeys from Thomas Tempelmanns code here and sending IDE Scripts to Xojo from Joe Ranieri here, props to them.
Thanks for the ideas. Yes, I’m about 50/50 starting from the Xojo app or double clicking a project file. I was hoping there was a trick or plist change or terminal command that could trigger something that triggers my utility launch. Probably too virusy to be possible.
I tried starting Xojo when my app starts and that works very well. I’ll need to look into Automator more but I think its the same idea of replacing Xojo for app launching. For the other 50% I rarely drag files to an app. I’m going to think about the implications of doing Get Info on a project and changing all the Open Withs to the utility, which will just pass them on to Xojo.
Though now that I see these apps idle at 0 I’m tempted to change my habits and go for a always running app where I could add in more global automations.