Re: Problem with NSAppleScript execution
Re: Problem with NSAppleScript execution
- Subject: Re: Problem with NSAppleScript execution
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:48:30 -0700
On 2011 Sep 12, at 22:01, Nava Carmon wrote:
> My application intercepts clicks/key down events and brings the text from the frontmost application to my application on catching a certain key sequence. Then it evaluates it and pastes fixed text back to the application, that was frontmost.
>
> I tried using accessibility APIs, but not all applications support it. AppleScript seems to be the universal solution in this case, since it's mostly simulates copy & paste key sequences, but may be there are another technologies, that can be used for this purpose. Are you aware of something more robust?
Mac OS X "Services" (a terribly ambiguous name) are more robust, but require the user to click your menu item.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/introduction.html
Beyond that, I think you need to go into system hacksterism, which I don't know how to do. There are apps that do text expansion, which seems to be what you'r describing, but I've never even used them and have no idea how they work.
Anyone else out there have any idea?
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