Re: Hiding OE's window
Re: Hiding OE's window
- Subject: Re: Hiding OE's window
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 01:11:47 +1300
on 5/3/02 10:11 AM, Arthur J Knapp at email@hidden wrote:
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I've recently had great success with a scripting addition called AutoType,
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for emulating keystrokes in Microsoft PowerPoint, (which was good, because
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Sigma's, Sandi's and Akua were not working well with MSPP).
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It could be becuase AutoType works, (in some "magic" way), differently
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that the others. Rather than sending commands directly to the app:
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tell application "Whatever"
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activate
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type text "whatever"
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In OE the problem is when run in the app, no user interaction while a script
is running but a oneliner if your'e lucky.
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you actually bring the app forward, and then call AutoType outside of
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the tell:
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tell application "Whatever"
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activate
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end tell
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AutoType "whatever"
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I have no idea if this helps the current thread, and I don't have
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OE for testing,
Alas no form seems to work and AutoType fares worse than others with the one
liner 'AutoType "3" holding "command"' in or out of a tell resulting in
'select all' .
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(does Entourage count?).
Maybe :)
How about these funnies...
AutoType "%)" holding command
-- aa
input state {keys down:F10 key}
-- ksm
MS standards
Out of curiosity what does AutoType's fun key syntax look like?
_____________________________ Andy
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