Blog news and more:
Mon 07, july 2008
Finder Droplets for Mac Editors
Shiny droplets released into the wild!
What are Shiny Droplets?
Shiny Droplets are a bundle of small applications that integrate with the finder toolbar, providing a fast shortcut to your favourite text editor.
How do Shiny Droplets works?
Just watch our 1 minute screencast!
Features:
- Files dropped onto a droplet will make each file open in its own editor window.
- Selecting files and then clicking a droplet will open the files altogether in the same editor window (provided the editor supports that).
- Finder integrations (look and feel and items selection)
- Shiny Droplets are free and open source!
Feedback:
Your fave editor is not there? Would you prefer a different behaviour on drop - or perhaps you like the app just the way it is? Just drop a comment to let us know, so we can make Shiny Droplet even better!
Comments rules:
- If possible please stick to English language
- We support Gravatar, go for it!
- Use BBCode for formatting: [b], [u], [s]
- Use [i] for quoting
- Use [link www.site.com] site [/link] for links
- Use [google] or [wiki] for referencies
- HTML code is not allowed in comments
Archives:
-
Tue 23, june 2009
-
Wed 28, january 2009
-
Mon 15, december 2008
-
Thu 11, december 2008
-
Sat 08, november 2008
-
Sat 18, october 2008
19 Comments:
Tom Kellen - Jul 07, 08
Great applets. I would love to see Editra included.
Thanks!
Ted Lewis - Jul 08, 08
Please add TextWrangler if possible
Matteo Rattotti - Jul 08, 08
Thanks for the feedback, we're planning to make a second release with some more editors in a near future.
Jonas Hartmann - Jul 08, 08
Hello,
what about jEdit
http://jedit.org/
and what about Eclipse/Aptana?
http://www.eclipse.org
http://www.aptana.org
Jonas Hartmann - Jul 08, 08
Ah yes, and you shoud probably support Mac OS X's own Texteditor - TextEdit. For some people it does the job.
At least my opinion. Great job btw!
Matthew Schinckel - Jul 09, 08
SubEthaEdit.
Martin - Jul 09, 08
Hi there
This is great work!
Do you have a "droplet" for launching Terminal like the App ">cd to.."
greetz
Oscar - Jul 09, 08
Nice job!!
Should be very nice to have an icon that contains all this droplets and shows them as a "drop down menu", so you don't have to use much horizontal space in your finder window to have all of them...
Danilo Bonardi - Jul 10, 08
@Oscar
Hello Oscar,
Your idea is great, unfortunately can't be done with simple .app files, but with some more sophisticated tecnique (e.g. pathfinder)
Bobis - Jul 14, 08
Really great, thanks. One thing, perhaps you can add instructions in text with the download rather than have a video show how to install.
Danilo Bonardi - Jul 14, 08
Thanks for your piece of advice Bobis, we add text instructions ASAP.
Tim - Jul 15, 08
Nice, but...
The icons aren't a high enough resolution to look good - they appear blurred.
Also, I have my Finder window set to use 'small icons' - they resize to be smaller than the rest of the buttons (I'm not sure who or what is at 'fault' here though).
Functionally sound; aesthetics need improvement.
Thanks!
Matteo Rattotti - Jul 15, 08
@TIM
The icons aren't a high enough resolution to look good - they appear blurred.
The icons appear blurred only in the finder view, for the real use (put them in finder toolbar) the resolution is correct :)
Also, I have my Finder window set to use 'small icons' - they resize to be smaller than the rest of the buttons
That's true, but the icons are resized by the Finder, there is nothing to do about that...
Thanks for the feedback!
Joseph Strong - Aug 04, 08
How about support for PC editors running on the MAC using Parallels or Fusion?
Jack - Aug 08, 08
In addition to those already listed, how about adding Bean (for rich text format) and Komodo Edit (for text and source code).
PatentBoy - Aug 08, 08
Why not simply drag the App of interest to the Finder window Toolbar? An icon/Alias for the App will be created.
Zettt - Sep 03, 08
I wanted to create my own Shiny Droplet but for AppZapper. So i took the source and got it to compile but when i add it to the finder toolbar and drop an app over the droplet nothing happens.
I think it has something to do with the .plist file inside the app bundle. Could you point me to the right direction please? (I will send you the source when finished...if needed)
Zettt - Sep 06, 08
Nevermind, got it working now. But i took a different approach.
@billifer - Jun 23, 09
Hi there! I've been loving ShinyDroplets every day for a year now. They work great, and I couldn't ask for more. Well, actually, I could: Have you thought you updating for Espresso from MacRabbit? I have no problem building the droplets myself... but I'm a horrible icon maker. :-(