Only if the menu item is named New, and that is a rare circumstance. Usually menu items are more precise, such as New Window or New Document.
On Jul 19, 4:22 am, funkymonkey <spider...@gmail.com> wrote: > Accessing the menu item 'file/new' also works. > > On Jul 16, 6:46 pm, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > > <jonstov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Save the following as ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/ > > Actions/New Document or Window.scpt, and then restart QS. Select one > > or more applications in the first pane, and run this action on them in > > the second pane. > > > on open these_items > > repeat with i from 1 to count these_items > > try > > set bid to bundle identifier of (info for item i of these_items) > > tell application id bid to launch > > tell application "System Events" > > set (first application process whose ¬ > > bundle identifier is bid)'s frontmost to true > > keystroke "n" using command down > > end tell > > end try > > end repeat > > end open > > > On Jul 16, 12:21 pm, David Barry <davidbarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply rob, I'll start messing around with that and see > > > if I have any success. > > > > On Jul 16, 7:06 am, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:51 PM, David Barry wrote: > > > > > > Is it possible to open a new window from an already running program > > > > > with quicksilver? For example, I have a terminal open, but it's in > > > > > another space, and I would like to open a new one quickly in the > > > > > current space, but I haven't been able to find any way to do this with > > > > > quicksilver. The example is Terminal, but preferably this would work > > > > > with any document based application(Firefox, TextEdit, etc.). > > > > > This would probably involve AppleScript, which is not my area, but > > > > maybe something like this: > > > > > tell application XYZ to hit ⌘N > > > > > “XYZ” would be the name of an application that you selected in > > > > Quicksilver’s first pane. I’m not sure how you would parse that, but I > > > > know Quicksilver can pass things into an AppleScript. > > > > > -- > > > > Rob McBroom > > > > <http://www.skurfer.com/>
