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by ned 5022 days ago
Excellent, really cool. On OSX, this is what AppleScript and Automator should have been.

Would it be possible to tap into GUI applications via OSX UI Scripting, and maybe mirroring the app's menus with Wiki menus?

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Yeah, totally. Someone should do that. I've brainstormed about it with a few XCode savvy friends. It would be super-slick if it were integrated into the Finder windows. So, you could drill into the dirs to get to a Xiki menu, and then drill into the Xiki menus in-place right in the OS.

I just made a Shoes menu (shoesrb.com) yesterday, though it's not checked in yet. Clicking Xiki menus that bring up custom native UI windows seems like it could have a lot of potential, though haven't really explored it. Might be interesting to try a shoes native interface for Xiki menus.

Another possible direction... Xiki has a web interface that you can enable. So you can to http://xiki and navigate menus. It probably wouldn't be too tough to make a native OSX app with an embedded browser that displays it.