Re: what's the ASCII for the escape key, and bonus question
Re: what's the ASCII for the escape key, and bonus question
- Subject: Re: what's the ASCII for the escape key, and bonus question
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:36:38 +0200
Hi Michael, Eric et al.,
WARNING:
1. Yes Sir ! I am sure about Spotlight !
> keystroke space using command down -- invoke spotlight
This is not a locked shortcut: the user can change the value to "invoke
spotlight"...
<rant>
Spotlight is one of the worst things I ever saw. Once open, it takes forever to
search for the first (few) character(s) you have the imprudence to give to it :(
This is with a PowerBook 15" Alu 1.5GHz / 512GB from August 2004.
</rant>
For some unknow reason I fall every here and then in Spotlight. After being very
angry, I make a search and discover (I was happy...) that I can change the shork
cut to calls it. So I do.
2. Confirmation have to be done
Are you sure that key code 53 is always the <esc>apa key in all keyboards
available around the world ?
It is always a good idea to check and test and ask before using a key code.
key code are hardware location of keys.
keyboard layout is what is printed on the keys.
Both are not related: the keycode to get the 'm' letter on a US domestic
(QWERTY, I do not know about Dvorak) keyboard is not the same to get that letter
on the keyboard I actually use (French AZERTY; 'm' is located at the right of
the 'l': HJKLM).
HTH,
Emile
PS: "what's the ASCII for the escape key, and bonus question"
I would answer:
tell application "System Events"
keystroke (ASCII character 27)
end if
but I do not know.
email@hidden wrote:
Subject: Re: what's the ascii for the escape key, and bonus question
To: Eric Geoffroy <email@hidden>
Cc: AppleScript List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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tell application "System Events"
keystroke space using command down -- invoke spotlight
delay 1
key code 53 -- escape key
end tell
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