Re: scripting keyboard strokes to action menu commands
Re: scripting keyboard strokes to action menu commands
- Subject: Re: scripting keyboard strokes to action menu commands
- From: Daniel Shockley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:04:17 -0800 (PST)
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Message: 15
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:44:47 -0500
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To: email@hidden
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From: Michael Packer <email@hidden>
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Subject: scripting keyboard strokes to action menu commands
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I am trying to automate an application which conveniently has
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keyboard equivalents for most of its menu items. For instance
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"command 6" to do such and such, "command shift 2" to do something
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else. All I need to do is string a few of these things together to
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satisfy my goal but I can't find any info regarding this.
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1) How do I script "do the command 6 menu item" ?
You would need an OSAX for this. A nice, cheap one is AutoType. It would let you use a command
like:
AutoType "8" holding "Command" -- not sute about the syntax
An important thing to note in the documentation if you use this OSAX is that the AutoType command
_must_ not be in a 'tell application' block, since the application won't know what it is.
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advTHANKSance
cute :-)
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