Re: Making a keyboard shortcut to Jump to a time in itunes [was; Re;Jumping to a time in itunes]

[Tim Kilburn]

On 5-Feb-08, at 1:38 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi David,

On Feb 05, 2008, at 10:03AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Wow Esther, this is awesom.  I only have one question.  Where you  
say use
the item chooser, isn't it easier just to select the items from the  
normal
windows where you can?

TK:  In addition to Esther's comments below, when in system  
Preferences, you can press the tab key to bring focus to the Scroll  
Area with all the system Preferences then simply press the first  
couple letters of the System Preference you wish to access.  VO will  
take you right there then just press VO-space to activate.  The  
advantages Esther mentions below still hold true with respect to  
this method as well.

Ester said:  Yes, you're right that you don't need to use item  
chooser.  I either interact with

the scroll area of system preferences and VO-keys+right arrow  
through to
app I want, then VO+keys+spacebar to select it and VO-keys right arrow
to the tab I want to press, or lately I go into system preferences,  
command+f
for find, and type in "Keyboard", carriage return, then VO-keys  
right arrow
to the relevant tab and press it, if needed.

The only advantage of using item chooser for new users who are  
unfamiliar
with the available preferences is that you don't have to worry about  
how
many new and unfamiliar options are available and whether you've  
mistyped
part of the the search term.  But I agree, it's lots easier to just  
select things
from the window.

Consider the instructions on how to get to the Keyboard Shortcuts  
tab of
the Keyboard & Mouse Menu in System Preferences changed!  Readers
only need to know they can press the "+" button to add a new shortcut
definition, and that they should VO-keys+right arrow to select iTunes
as the App for the shortcut definition, then supply the name of the
AppleScript and then type in the shortcut they want to assign.

Shortcut assignments should always be done when the app is closed,
but this assignments works quite generally.


Cheers,

Esther

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Subject: Making a keyboard shortcut to Jump to a time in itunes [was;
Re;Jumping to a time in itunes]


Hi Orin and others,

Hi Orin,

I have a new solution to your question below:

Orin asked:  Just wondering how to jump to a certain time in  
ITunes? I
was listening to something, I whent to rewind it, and it started at
the beginning again.

TK:  With the help of Esther and the good folks at DougScripts, I  
have
modified a script that will do just what you're asking.  The  
script is
called "RestartAt", it will bring up a dialog with an Edit field  
where
you type where you'd like to start the given iTunes selection.  It
will handle hours:minutes:seconds.  You can pick it up from my  
Public
folder of my iDisk by doing the following:

• Go to your Finder.
• Go to the Go menu.
• Go down to iDisk.
• Go right and down to Other Users Public Folder.
• Type in kilburns.
• It is in the iTunes Scripts folder.

Copy this into your /Library/iTunes/Scripts folder.  If you don't  
have
a Scripts folder in that location, just make one and name it  
Scripts.
Once the RestartAt script is in that folder, you can navigate along
your menus in iTunes until right after the Window menu.  VO will  
reach
a menu that it doesn't announce, press your down arrow and the
RestartAt script will be available.  There are ways of attaching a  
key
combination to it as well but I won't go into that here.  Hope I
haven't forgot anything.

you can also pick up the script from
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html

Just a followup suggestion to Tim's post about the RestartAt
AppleScript you can get from his web site: it's easiest to use if you
bind this to a shortcut key.  You can do this when iTunes is not
running by navigating to Systems Preferences in the Menu Bar
(VO-keys+m to go to the menu bar; VO-keys down arrow to System
Preferences) then use item chooser (VO-keys+i) to go to the  
Keyboard &
Mouse menu by typing "Key", selecting Keyboard & Mouse with VO-keys+
spacebar, then using VO-keys+spacebar again to press the selected  
icon
and actually go to that menu.  Use item chooser again and type
"Shortcuts" to get the entry for the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
VO-keys+spacebar to select this tab, and VO-keys+ spacebar to press
the tab and go there.  VO-keys+ right arrow twice to the plus sign.
(VO-keys+h gives "Click to define shortcuts within applications.)
VO-keys+spacebar to press so you can add a new keyboard shortcut
definition.  In the window that opens up you'll hear "Applications".
VO-keys right arrow to the "All Applications" popup button. VO-keys+
spacebar to press the button and VO-keys+down arrow to iTunes and
carriage return to select. VO-keys+right arrow to "Menu Title" and
VO-keys+right arrow again to the blank text field.  Type in the name
of the AppleScript, "RestartAt". VO-keys+right arrow twice more to
"Keyboard Shortcut" then VO-keys+right arrow to the blank text field
and type in the shortcut keys you want to use.  For example, I type  
in
Command+Option+R here.  You can VO-keys+right arrow to the cancel and
add buttons, but I typically just carriage return after entering my
shortcut.  Close the Keyboard & Mouse window with Command-W.

Now, if you start iTunes, you can select a track in your Songs  
outline
and type Command+Option+R. A window will pop up and you'll be told  
the
start and end times for the track. You can VO-keys+right arrow to  
enter
your time in the text field.  The default time entry will be the  
current
play position.

HTH.

Cheers,

Esther








Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada