Installation:

	Change "wishx" to "wish" in case you don't have "wishx".
	Set "MAILER" to your preferred email program (in UNIX).
	Start the program.
	Select something that contains URL's/email address and mouse over "A".
	You can mouse over "E" to type something.

	If you want to activate by binding it to a key in your window manager (unix)	then type 

		csplit -k -f hotkey detectors.tcl '%HOTKEY%+1' /^}/

		Bind a key binding to "hotkey00" (file extracted above).

What is it?

Are you tired of slicing/dicing and trigger programs based on the text you cut? 
Tired to cutting URLS and pasting them in a web browser?
Tired of doing nslookup on an IP address? And then telneting to that address
Cuting an email address and then pasting it in an email program?

Then you need......

Detectors: A cool gadget to trigger actions based on the selection/CLIPBOARD

How does it work?

	Say you highlight some text in UNIX or Windows (hit Copy/Cut).
	You move over the detector gadget and it will parse the selection
	in the clipboard using the various detectors. Any detector that triggers
	will build a button with the "trigger" text and map it to an appropriate
	action. The user now has the option to click on the button and launch
	the action. You can dynamically enable/disable a detector based on
	the work you are performing at that time.

Platforms/Requirements?

	Unix/Windows
	Wish 8.0.x  (Wishx preferred)

	(Mac users check out http://www.apple.com/applescript/data_detectors/)

Bundled Detectors?

	Detector: IP
	Regex: IP (Match an IP address.) 
	Action: Launch "telnet IPaddress"
	
	Detector: Hostname
	Regex: *.com (Match a hostname)
	Action: Lauch "telnet hostname"

	Detector: Email
	Regex: user@somewhere.com (Match an email address)
	Action: Launch "MAILER address"

	Detector: WWW
	Regex: https?/www* (Match simple web address)
	Action: Launch web browser

	Detector: corpid
	Regex: our company specific employee identifier
	Action: Launch web browser to get employee info

	Detector: TEMPLATE
	A template to build future detectors


Future Detectors?

	I don't have a need for these but if someone writes them, I will bundle
	them:

	SSN: If you have to deal with social security numbers, and do lookups
	Zipcode
	City, State: Get the map from yahoo/mapquest
	Telephone: Call someone

	Use POOL package to look for URL'S.



My thoughts?

We have been using this for a while in my group and its helped speed up
our daily work. 

I got the idea for this from 
Apple Computers, Inc http://www.apple.com/applescript/data_detectors/

Comments, question, send email to

	ashish.desai@fidelity.com


Ashish Desai
May 28,1999