Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
- Subject: Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
- From: Tod Hallberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:08:29 -0500
- Organization: Monical Pizza Corporation
Eric Schult wrote:
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I'm trying to trigger a QuicKeys Shortcut from within an Applescript. How
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might that be done? QuicKeys doesn't seem to have a application from which I
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can open an Applescript dictionary and explore its scriptability. The
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QuicKeys manual seems only to brush upon relationships between QuicKeys and
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Applescript, but not in any way that would assist me in what I'm trying to
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do.
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I've got an Acrobat Plugin (Gemini) that extracts text from PDFs, but Gemini
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isn't scriptable and doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts that would enable
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me to use KeyQuencer (or some such) to automate text extraction of multiple
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PDFs.
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I never use QuicKeys if I can help it, but here I thought I could use it to
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trigger Gemini's text extraction feature in Acrobat. I've got QuicKeys doing
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what I want from a keyboard shortcut now, but I have to figure out how to
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trigger the keyboard shortcut from within an Applescript repeat loop.
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I'm sure the answer's right in front of my face, but I guess I'm thrown by
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how unorthodox QuicKeys seems as a Mac app. I'm more than open to any
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solution that leaves QuicKeys out of equation.
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wes
You could always use QK Icons to convert your script to an "application".
Actually it is still linked to QK itself, but it runs like it is an
application. The QK icon will also change as you change the script in QK.
Once you have done that, you can just call the QK script by telling the icon
that you made to activate.
hope this helps
tod