Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
- Subject: Re: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:07:15 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:00:10 -0600
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Subject: Triggering a QuicKeys Shortcut
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From: Eric Schult <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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I'm trying to trigger a QuicKeys Shortcut from within an Applescript. How
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might that be do ne? 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.
In addition to using the Backgrounder application, as others have
suggested, all versions of QuicKeys will allow you to save a shortcut as
an application. Having done this, you can activate the shortcut thusly:
tell application "shortcutApp" to run
Marc [5/3/01 11:07:06 AM]