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Also with Quicksilver + AppleScript
Authored by: DocMan on Jul 15, '05 11:55:01AM

Couldn't you just set up the same keyboard shortcut through the keyboard preference panel? Just save your script as an app.

Doc



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Also with Quicksilver + AppleScript
Authored by: mingking on Jul 15, '05 12:36:45PM

Unless I'm missing something about what you're saying, you can't set Keyboard Preferences to launch an app. You can only set it to execute a menu item by name of an already running app.

I guess the third-party guys are happy with the current state, but it seems that Apple already has a nice GUI for assigning keystrokes globally or per Application, but the implementation is pretty weak. When they first introduced it I thought they were going to make it a full blown centralized keystroke assignment/action customization system, but instead you've got a hodgepodge of things like Keyboard Prefs bindings (weak), the global AppleScript menu (can do just about anything, but no keyboard assignments), and Automator workflows (good for adding contextual menus, but again, no keyboard assignments). All of these should interoperate better.



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Also with Quicksilver + AppleScript
Authored by: DocMan on Jul 18, '05 12:54:13PM

Enable the Script menu, and make sure that your applescript is in the menu. Then Keyboard shortcuts can launch the app.

I'll admit I haven't tried this, but it should work.

Doc



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Also with Quicksilver + AppleScript
Authored by: gullevek on Jul 17, '05 09:18:09AM

I don't know. For me it always has side effects. I set a zoom global shortcut, but instead of zooming only the front window, like the menu point does when going throught the menu, it zooms all windows.
So I don't even bother with these settings anymore.



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