Re: Swap keyboard from "belgium" layout to US
Re: Swap keyboard from "belgium" layout to US
- Subject: Re: Swap keyboard from "belgium" layout to US
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:21:50 +0100
On 18 Apr 2006, at 14:24, Jan Bultereys wrote:
Does anyone have an idea how to swap keyboard language in panther.
I want to swap the keyboard from “Belgian” to “US” and then back to
“Belgian” via applescript or terminal command.
This seems to be another case where modifying the plist file (~/
Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist) doesn't have any
(desired) effect, Jan. Don't know if you're open to GUI scripting on
this, but here's a stab at it, anyway. It relies, of course, on the
input menu being available in the menu bar - and on the required
layout[s] being present in the menu. While it works in Tiger, I can't
say if it will in Panther. (Sometimes, adding a delay here and there
seems to help with a pre-Tiger UI).
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on switch_keyboard to keyboard_layout
tell application "System Events" to tell menu bar 1 of application
process "SystemUIServer"
repeat with this_menu in menu bar items (* workaround for bug in
conditional filter *)
tell this_menu to if value of attribute "AXDescription" is "text
input menu extra" then
click (* open menu *)
tell menu item keyboard_layout of menu 1 to if exists then return
click
cancel (* operation failed: close menu *)
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
beep (* indicate that a failure occurred *)
error number -128 (* cancel script execution *)
end switch_keyboard
switch_keyboard to "U.S."
delay 2 (* demo only: do some stuff *)
switch_keyboard to "Belgian"
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kai
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