re: TypeText on OS X?
re: TypeText on OS X?
- Subject: re: TypeText on OS X?
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:29:56 +0100
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:49:21 -0400, Thomas Zeilstra <email@hidden> wrote:
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I've found the TypeText command to be very useful in OS 9 (I believe
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it's from "Sandi's Additions". It basically makes the computer think
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that you just typed in something with the keyboard. Is there anything
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like that for OS X?
Youpi Key lets you mimic keyboard (and menu) events and a stack of other
things besides, and at #0 ($0) it's hard to beat the price. Except if
someone paid you to use it. Whatever happened to dotcoms?
http://perso.club-internet.fr/phupe/english/YKIndex.html
Also lets you run scripts, and map the running of scripts to keyboard
combinations - so, in its way, like OSA Menu, except (am I allowed to say
this?) more powerful. It sits in the menu, and you can map particular
scripts (and all sorts of other things) to particular applications, or have
them global.
The only wrinkle I've noticed is that if a script fails, you don't get told
so. I've mentioned this to the author, who says he'll have a look at
getting error alerts in the next version. (It's presently 1.7.)
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tell application "Finder"
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TypeText "Macintosh HD"
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TypeText "o" with command
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TypeText "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
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TypeText "o" with command
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TypeText "SimpleText"
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TypeText "o" with command
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TypeText "I'm writing in Simpletext...yeah!!"
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end tell
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--yes, i know i could just open simpletext but I wanted to show what
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typetext did....
Except you couldn't do the last step without the OSAX, because Simpletext
isn't scriptable.
Charles
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