I have an Apple aluminum wired keyboard with a full number pad. I am used to the number pad's ENTER key being equivalent to RETURN, doing things like accepting...
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wapgam0
Aug 10, 2010 1:00 pm
Is it possible to "ENABLE" or "DISABLE" a "MACRO" via a "HOT KEY TRIGGER"? Please help! André...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 10, 2010 1:19 pm
... Yes: 1. Create a new group (+ button at the bottom of the Groups column) 2. Click on "Always activated" and select "Activated for one action when" or...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
Aug 16, 2010 5:52 am
Date: 2010-08-16 Title: Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 4.3.2 Description: Stairways Software today released Keyboard Maestro version 4.3.2...
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Calvin Jeong
wmbdmw
Aug 16, 2010 7:17 am
Hi all, Can triggers combined? I want to execute an action when Finder is activated and I press the tab key. At the moment my action is executed when tab key...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
Aug 16, 2010 8:01 am
... Not in general, but yes in this sort of case. Macro Groups control when a macro is available. Make a macro group and make it active only in the Finder....
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Clytie Siddall
clytie_siddall
Aug 16, 2010 8:11 am
... I have 4.3.1, and I'm still getting "You are already running the current version of Keyboard Maestro". from Clytie Clytie Siddall -- Renmark, in the...
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Clytie Siddall
clytie_siddall
Aug 16, 2010 8:46 am
(Sorry for the delay in reply) Macro progress: Triggered by: SSH Agent launches √ Will execute the following actions: Insert text (my password) by Pasting...
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Thomas Ungricht
thomasu2003
Aug 16, 2010 10:47 am
hi, on my machine the built-in updater worked fine. Greetings Thomas_U OSX 10.6.4 (BUILD 10F569), MacBookPro 2.53 GHz (late2008), 4 GB RAM...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
Aug 16, 2010 10:57 am
didn't at 8am this morning, is doing so now :-) -- One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. -Malayan Proverb ... ...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 16, 2010 1:41 pm
Hi, Are you 100% sure the window you want to act on really is the front window at that point? A way to make sure would be to increase the pause to a few...
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LarryT24
nomodes
Aug 16, 2010 6:32 pm
I often join a GoToMeeting meeting in which the presenter is sharing a Windows XP screen with the attendees. When the presenter gives me control, GoToMeeting...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 17, 2010 3:28 am
Nice tips, Larry! Thanks for sharing. ... You could add a System Beep action before the pause. That might stop you before you start typing. ...
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alpinethosemyriads
alpinethosem...
Aug 19, 2010 9:33 am
Hi, Just noticed that the 4.3.2 version is using almost 50MB of memory. It was sitting around 13MB before and I´m wondering if there can be a memory leak or...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
Aug 19, 2010 11:16 am
... The most common reason for a relatively large memory usage is the clipboard history - if you're copying a few images, the clipboard history can rapidly...
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alpinethosemyriads
alpinethosem...
Aug 19, 2010 11:34 am
I see. The memory went down after i cleared the clipboard history :) Thanks for the help!...
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hyejunee5
Aug 23, 2010 8:05 pm
Hi, I'm new to Keyboard Maestro, and was wondering if there was a way to simulate a secondary-click (I do this by a two-finger tap on the trackpad of my...
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Miraz Jordan
mirazjordan
Aug 23, 2010 8:09 pm
... A secondary click is the same as holding down the Control key while you do a single ordinary click. choose a Control Click action. Cheers, Miraz -- Miraz...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 23, 2010 8:12 pm
Hi, ... Use click with ctrl (^) modifier. Philippe ______________________________________________________________________ Philippe (Flip) MARTIN...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 25, 2010 5:32 pm
Can I include characters such as tabs or carriage returns in a typed string trigger? I'm working on moving my TextExpander snippets over to KM, just to cut...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 25, 2010 5:33 pm
I'd like to cut down on the number of background apps I run at any given time. I'm currently using, and enjoy, TextExpander, although I can't say I'm getting...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 25, 2010 6:11 pm
Hi, ... Yes you can. You cannot type them directly into KM, when creating the trigger, but you can type the whole string in another application (say TextEdit,...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 25, 2010 8:42 pm
Not to resurrect a dead horse, here, but I've been experimenting with just using "diff" to merge my KM macro sets. It works pretty well, provided it's done...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 25, 2010 8:43 pm
Thanks, Philippe. I also discovered that you can hold down "option" and press tab to insert it. Seems to work with other special characters, too. --Nik...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
Aug 25, 2010 9:05 pm
... You're welcome! ... Yeah, but in some cases the resulting character will be different. For example space and alt-space aren't the same. BTW, you could also...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 26, 2010 2:57 pm
A question on syncing/copying prefs when KM is still running: If it's still running, will it store new macros/configuration changes in the new preferences...
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nikfrieteb
Aug 26, 2010 3:01 pm
... Very clever! I can see lots of uses for that -- editing text fields on web sites, for example. A nice addition to it would be to use BBEdit's "scratchpad,"...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
Aug 27, 2010 1:57 am
... Keyboard Maestro keeps the macros stored in RAM and writes the entire thing out when any changes are made or when it quits, so you cannot successfully...
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Alan Schmitt
schmittafr
Aug 27, 2010 2:02 pm
... I used to use TE, and have stopped using it. I migrated when TE was at version 2, if I understand correctly there are many new features in version 3 which...
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Stephen Ferris
slferris2
Aug 27, 2010 3:29 pm
Is there a way to make a macro the will right-click on an already-selected object (in Adobe InDesign CS3) and then select a menu and submenu?...
