Services

MacSQL offers support for Services. Services provide a way for applications to provide integrated support inside other applications.

Using Services in MacSQL

MacSQL fully supports using system services on Mac OS X. When text is selected, you can select any of the enabled items in the Services submenu (in the MacSQL menu) to operate on that text.

Using MacSQL from other applications

MacSQL acts as a service provider offering to perform queries in other applications and is fully compatible with applications that use services. While in the application, click on the application name in the menu bar and choose services. Select MacSQL and then click on the service you would like MacSQL to perform.

For example, you can type a query into a TextEdit document, select the query, and then choose TextEdit->Services->MacSQL->Make Query With Results As Tab Delmited and the query will be replaced with the results of that query in tab-delimited format. Other service options includes receiving the results as text, HTML, or XML.