Re: Keystroke question
Re: Keystroke question
- Subject: Re: Keystroke question
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:36:30 -0700
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID211TkVVMr1632X32
Thanks Thomas,
That gets me on a working path.
> On Nov 22, 2015, at 11:03:AM, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Robert,
>
> would something like
>
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> set myFile to the selection as alias
> set myName to the name of myFile
> if length of myName ≠ 0 then set the name of myFile to myName & "ƒ"
> end tell
>
> achieve what you're looking for?
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>
>
> Am 22.11.2015 um 18:38 schrieb Robert Poland <email@hidden>:
>
>>
>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:10:AM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Le 2015/11/22 à 18:05, Robert Poland <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The line;
>>>> tell application “System Events” to keystroke “f” using {option down}
>>>>
>>>> gets me the Application ‘Searching “This Mac”’ rather than typing a Option f.
>>>>
>>>> What I’m trying to do is add an Option F to the name of a folder in a Finder window whose name is selected with the entry point set to the end of the name
>>>>
>>>> TIA.
>>>
>>> As you failed to tell it which process must be targeted, System Events send the keystroke to the frontmost one which appear to be the Finder.
>>>
>>> Use :
>>> tell application “System Events” to tell process "theProcessSupposedToTreatTheKeystroke"
>>> set frontmost to true
>>> keystroke “f” using {option down}
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 novembre 2015 18:10:50
>>
>> Here’s the entire script. It still gets ‘Searching “This Mac”.
>>
>>
>> (* test, with Finder item selected and ready for editing name. *)
>> tell application “Finder”
>> activate
>> set x to selection
>> if length of x ≠ 0 then
>> tell application "System Events" to tell process "Finder"
>> set frontmost to true
>> keystroke "f" using {option down}
>> end tell
>> else
>> tell application "Mail" to activate
>> delay 1
>> repeat 1 times
>> tell application "System Events"
>> keystroke "f" using {option down}
>> end tell
>> end repeat
>> end if
>> end tell
>>
>>
>> Robert Poland
>> Fort Collins, CO
>>
>>
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