Comments on: IconGrabber

By: Andre B

Andre B — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:32:55 +0000

Hm as I do not know how to contact Ankur directly, I might as well ask here if there are any plans of making the source code available for the IconGrabber.qsplugin. (yes, I do know that this post was started 2 yrs ago and I also do know that a download package is available. Last time I was looking it didn’t include any sources however). Would be nice to take a look at those. Don’t worry I do not have anything commercial it’s just invaluable for learning more about QS internals so that maybe, just maybe enough knowlegde can be gathered to fix some of current release’s (b56a7) bugs.

By: Andre B

Andre B — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:28:31 +0000

Unfortunately in current version (b56a7) the text based size (e.g. “512 png” for indirect pane) approach crashes QS because of an “index out of range” exception on NSArray. Pity that the testing version is not available anymore (404 on the link).
“defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver IconGrabberSize 512″ does work though once you restart QS. Again thank you Ankur for everything you have done for the QS community!

By: Jono

Jono — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:51:03 +0000

Sorry, I'm not too sure whether I understand this correctly or not?

With the new version of the plug-in is it possible to specify a different icon size each time? (on the fly) or do you have to change something in Preferences it will stay at this size?

E.g. ‘Whatever you want to convert’ >Tab> Save as Icon...>Tab> (enters text mode where you’d write something like…) ‘128 jpg’ or ‘256 png’ etc.

Also is it possible for me to alter somewhere in the plug-in plist file so that the the Save Icon As... action saves as JPG as default? (instead of TIFF) And still keeps PNG as the default format for Save Icon To...

By: Ankur

Ankur — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:36:40 +0000

Leon, defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver IconGrabberSize 256 works for me. Try relaunching QS?

By: IconGrabber at hocuspokus

IconGrabber at hocuspokus — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:09:06 +0000

[…] IconGrabber is a useful little application for getting an OS X applications icon for use on the web. It’s also available as a Quicksilver plugin […]

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:03:16 +0000

Nice work Ankur… but only one problem. I’ve tried the suggestion you’ve made about the bigger icons but the plugin still gives me 128×128 icons….

Any suggestions?

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:58:56 +0000

Fantastic!
Works great for me, thanks

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:03:38 +0000

I think the main thing was getting the icon out. It’s a workspace call and it needs a Cocoa app to get at it. Then it needs some clever craftsmanship around that so it works right. And that makes it brilliant in its simplicity. It does not need to save to different formats because you can do that already. As I understand it already does intuitively from the file extension - this is very cool. I’d just like to remind people AK did a nice thing here and we should thank him and there isn’t necessarily a ‘next thing’.

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:07:55 +0000

Drop down and remembering directories added to test version.

By: Jono

Jono — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:58:53 +0000

Works fine for me

I guess the next step for the app version would be to add a drop down list to select file type (that would remember your last selection).
Plus being able to specify a default location to save them to (or remember the last location you saved to) in Preferences?