Re: Transcription app: Prospective Script
Re: Transcription app: Prospective Script
- Subject: Re: Transcription app: Prospective Script
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:25:08 -0800
Assigning three scripts to three hot keys would accomplish exactly what I need. I had not thought of that.
How does one do that?
--Gil
On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> Seems like a better approach might be to assign a script to a hot key that does what you want in quicktime and then returns the focus back to text edit, and exits. This might require multiple scripts, one per hot-key, or you might be able to do it all in one script which is assigned to multiple hot keys.
>
> Paul
>
On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Gil Dawson wrote:
> Hi--
>
> I am keyboarding movie transcripts, so I have QuickTime and TextEdit windows up side-by-side. Most of the time, TextEdit is frontmost while I am typing. I occasionally click on the QuickTime window to get a bit more dialog, or to back up a skoash, then click back to the TextEdit window to resume typing.
>
> Grabbing the mouse to change context slows me down, so I thought it might be fun to write an AppleScript to control QuickTime with a couple of hot keys while most of the keyboard input goes to TextEdit.
>
> Controlling QuickTime to play, back up, and stop seems easy, and I suppose I can use System Events to pass all the other keystrokes on to TextEdit.
>
> But how can my AppleScript app get the keystrokes from my keyboard? Can System Events get them for me? I don't see that function in its dictionary.
>
> --Gil
>
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