These are dinky little code resources which FinderPop can execute. They’re meant for tasks for which a contextual menu plugin or even a tiny application would be overkill. Note that CM plugins have a cost associated with them — the plugin file is always open, and some (all?) of their code is always loaded.
This first FinderPoplet, “SwitchToFinder/HideOthers”, does exactly what its name implies. Drop an alias to this into your FinderPop Items Folder and you’re in biz — select it from a FinderPop menu and you’ll find yourself staring at a blank, uncluttered screen. Unless your Finder layer is cluttered, of course.
“Hide Current Application” does what you might think.
“Get Pathname” sets the clipboard to the full pathname of the Finder selection.
I eventually plan on allowing arbitrary placement of these items (i.e., make it so that “SwitchToFinder/HideOthers” would only appear in the Process menu. Additionally, it might be nice to allow ’em to have icons (FinderPop currently displays a hardcoded naff little cube ’cos I couldn’t draw a droplet.)
If anyone else has any weird or wonderful ideas for such small utilities, either
email me or write one yourself. API and source to “SwitchToFinder/HideOthers” enclosed.
