In theory that should be pretty easy to do.
Since Quicksilver does almost everything via keystrokes, you might
find it easiest to simply create a series of AppleScripts to simulate
keystrokes, and save them in /Users/jon/Library/Speech/Speakable Items/
Application Speakable Items/Quicksilver. If you named each script
after then keys to be pressed (e.g. "a.scpt" for one that types the
letter a, or command n.scpt for one that types ⌘N), then all you would
need to do is give say "Switch to Quicksilver" to bring up QS's
command window, and then start dictating the keys to simulate typing.
These kind of AppleScripts are simple to create. For example, to
simulate typing the letter a, the AppleScript code would be:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "a"
To type ⌘N, the code would be:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "n" using command down
To type ⇧⌥- (the key combination for typing an em-dash), the code
would be:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "-" using {shift down,
option down}
Note that when you need to use more than one modifier key, you must
enclose the list inside curled brackets.
However, to type keys like Tab or Delete, which do not create symbols,
you need to use a slightly different form. For example, to simulate
pressing the Tab key, use the following code:
tell application "System Events" to key code 48
48 is the keyboard code number for the Tab key. You can find the
keyboard code for any key on your keyboard using a little app called
Full Key Codes, available from
http://softwares.bajram.com/utilities/#Full_Key_Codes.
Open that application, then press a key. In its window it will display
various code numbers associated with what you just typed. Then one you
are interested in is the decimal version of the keyboard code, which
is written in blue in the lower right of the window.
For a final example, to press ⇧⌘Tab, you would use the following code:
tell application "System Events" to key code 48 using {shift down,
command down}
Armed with this information, I think you will find it pretty easy to
get Quicksilver up and running as a Speakable application. Let us know
how well it works out for you.
On Jul 26, 6:21 am, synapse12 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone had sucess with with triggering quicksilver commands using
> the mac ox native voice recognition capabilities? I'd like to be able
> to speak the same keystrokes that I use to control quicksilver to open
> bookmarks and files. It seems like it should be doable, but a
> websearch did not reveal anything too useful and I am fairly new to
> apple scripts so I got stuck.
> Any help is much appreciated,
> Thanks
> Dylan
