AppleScript and QuicKeys
AppleScript and QuicKeys
- Subject: AppleScript and QuicKeys
- From: Curtis Michelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 03:45:07 -0400
Hi,
Quick question about calling QuickKeys shortcuts from an AppleScript.
For background, I'm using AS to drive a script in Excel which iterates
through a column of cells and for each item in that column I'm calling a
QuicKeys script that emulates some menu pulls and keystrokes in FileMaker.
I would script the FileMaker actions with AppleScript if I could but these
particular actions can only be emulated by a macro recorder like QuicKeys.
The problem is, the QuicKeys macro takes about 4 seconds to do its thing and
by the time it finishes, my AppleScript has finished looping through the
cells in Excel and it's sitting back having a glass of Kool-Aid when ole
pokey QuicKeys reports back and says he's done.
So, my question is, how can I put the brakes on my AppleScript just long
enough to allow the QuicKeys macro to run and then to resume it's process
after the macro finishes? I suppose there's a Pause or Wait command in
AppleScript which I could pass some arbitrary number of seconds but I would
rather create a "smarter" AppleScript that "knows" when QuicKeys is finished
and then resumes its work.
I hope I've described this sufficiently. Any insights or suggestions would
be appreciated.
Thanks,
Curtis Michelson
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