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I am just wondering if there is a way to add a context menu item to call a highlighted phone number in safari/mail/etc. with Skype. Maybe applescript? (OSX 10.5.8)

Kundera98
2010-06-25 23:24:00
any chance you can outline the process so the rest of us [less IT savvy] can understand? thanks
Joshua Mullenberg
2010-05-04 16:31:00
Answered my own question: Its already available under the services menu.However, before I realized that, I figured out a way to use applescript paired with quicksilver to launch it. Its a little quicker than navigating through the menus. All you have to do is highlight the PH# and then use quicksilver to run the script. Here is the script:tell application "System Events" set frontApp to name of the first process whose frontmost is true set visible of process frontApp to false set frontApp to name of the first process whose frontmost is trueend telltell application frontApp to activatetell application "System Events" tell process frontApp tell menu bar 1 click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" end tell end tellend tellset thePhoneNumber to the clipboard as textset thePhoneNumber to "+1" & thePhoneNumbertell application "Skype" send command "CALL " & thePhoneNumber script name "s1"end tell
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Aibek
2010-05-06 12:05:00
Hey Joshua,Thanks for sharing this with everyone else.Aibek