Ah .... -- It is not how old you are, but how you are old. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)...
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kenhumanoid
May 1, 2012 6:19 pm
It works! Awesome!! Thank you so much!!! KH...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 1, 2012 6:28 pm
You're welcome! Philippe ... ______________________________________________________________________ Philippe Martin Tips & Tricks for Keyboard Maestro:...
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tvalleau
May 2, 2012 7:47 pm
Hi At least on my system (10.7.3 - 24GB RAM), this is true 100% of the time: if KM engine is running, anytime I mount a DMG used for distributing software, the...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 3, 2012 10:49 am
I would really like to find a way of figuring out a mouse position within KM via a command - such as, "tell me where I clicked relative to front windows top...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 3, 2012 11:46 am
To make sure recording bases the click on the front window, click on the window to take it to the front first. Otherwise the position is based on the screen. ...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 3, 2012 11:52 am
Thanks Philippe - it was probably not clicking on the window first that gave the problem. I think I've just found an app that doesn't like just a click. but...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
May 4, 2012 3:20 am
... There is a text token: %CurrentMouse% and two calculation functions: MOUSEX(),MOUSEY() that return the current mouse location. There are also tokens and...
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jeffrey.pecore
May 5, 2012 2:01 am
Does anyone have a macro for this? I've been trying to create one (including using the record feature) and can't get it to work. I just want to create a...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 5, 2012 1:02 pm
Here's what I came up with: And here's the action's text: Cursor position relative to: Screen: ↓ %Calculate%MOUSEY()% / → %Calculate%MOUSEX()% Window: ↓...
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davidferrington
May 6, 2012 4:46 pm
Brilliant, thank you - that solves that :-)...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
May 7, 2012 2:06 am
... Very nice! I'll add this to the Macro Library, probably with a Status Menu trigger and a 5 second pause at the start to allow the mouse to be positioned....
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 7, 2012 2:19 am
Thank you very much, Peter. I'm glad you like it! Philippe ... ______________________________________________________________________ Philippe Martin Tips &...
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Ken G. Brown
kengbrown
May 7, 2012 7:14 pm
I am using macros a lot with Terminal for signing on to servers, typing long remote server commands, etc. I often find that I need to abort the Terminal...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
May 8, 2012 3:21 am
... Yes, the Cancel All Macros action would be an appropriate action to call to stop any currently running macros. A good idea is the simple macro that is...
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kaushikgopal@...
kaushikgopal...
May 8, 2012 7:24 am
I love KM too much and i've been using it quite extensively for various operations. I wanted to bounce this off fellow KM users and get their opinions/advice...
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j.godsey
May 8, 2012 3:43 pm
I am using version 5.2.1 and the Application Switcher will not show non-running applications or allow me to launch them. How do I correct this. It worked fine...
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kengbrown
May 8, 2012 4:20 pm
... So if 'Cancel All Other Macros' were to be added at the beginning of my macro that seems to leave leftovers from a previously cancelled run, would that...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 8, 2012 4:55 pm
I wish to run a perl script file and use the output as a display (it's actually the error output stderr if any), but I also want to record a couple of values...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 8, 2012 5:32 pm
I don't know if you're missing something or not, as I don't use Perl, but the Execute action lets you put the result of your script into a variable. Maybe you...
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zettt81
May 8, 2012 5:37 pm
Re Q2) Setting a variable to %Delete% is going to release it. Cheers, Andreas...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 8, 2012 5:46 pm
Hi, ... I don't know of such a document, but for things that can be done in different ways, the rules I use are: - use the Move and Click action only if the...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 8, 2012 6:34 pm
In this context, Perl is no different from any other script or executable - it runs within it's own context and can not instantiate or affect an environment...
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Christopher Stone
ccstone_swrd
May 8, 2012 7:02 pm
... ______________________________________________________________________ Hey David, It looks like you'll have to run it via 'osascript' embedded in the Perl:...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 8, 2012 7:14 pm
You can set a KM variable from AppleScript that way: tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" set myVar to make variable with properties...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 8, 2012 9:18 pm
OK, thank you both Chris and Philippe - that's what I was looking for. However if I run osascript ~/Library/Scripts/KM\ Scripts/test.scpt world or even just...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 8, 2012 11:01 pm
I can't figure out why this runs to 6 instead of 4 - in the real world, this was running forever with the check for an upper limit. In the following text in...
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Philippe Martin
flip_macrobyte
May 9, 2012 12:00 am
It's not visible in your mail, but if %Variable%KMVAR_DL_numberOfQuestions% is misspelled in your condition, that condition will never be false (loops will...
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David Ferrington
davidferrington
May 9, 2012 12:16 am
Yep, discovered the prefix bit, now I've got lots of vars to clean up :-) I saw a pop-up once that listed all the vars (along with an + and - button), but I...
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Peter N Lewis
peterneillewis
May 9, 2012 3:33 am
... Perhaps at some point you have turned off the display of Always included applications by pressing "a"? Display the switcher, then press "a" to toggle them...
