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Math in spotlight on os x showed me that there is someone in the company who pays attention to how a user uses the system. Not just the math part, but the fact
by emehrkay 14y ago
Math in spotlight on os x showed me that there is someone in the company who pays attention to how a user uses the system. Not just the math part, but the fact that you can copy the result to the pasteboard with the keyboard shortcut
- kalleboo 14y agoBut it always annoys me when selecting the result doesn't open the same math problem in the calculator app (like how QuickLook will open a video at the exact same playhead position + window position)
- emehrkay 14y agoTrue, very true. I hate when I mistakenly hit enter and it opens a blank calculator. One would assume that the calculator has an api where you can send queries to it, maybe it doesnt have one for 'open with predefined equation'
- jasomill 14y agoI wouldn't assume that — a Cocoa application process is an insane amount of overhead for a simple arithmetic expression evaluator, so who'd bother using it? Assuming Spotlight uses the same underlying evaluator, it's a safe bet that it's implemented as a library shared between the Spotlight search UI and the app. To be even more specific, on 10.8 at least, both Calculator.app and Search.bundle link to a private framework called Calculate, which may be relevant.