Re: (OT) Re: Cmd-H

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: (OT) Re: Cmd-H

On or near 11/18/00 8:52 PM, chris stearns at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Is there a system-wide 'hide app' shortcut now, hidden away somewhere? Try
> as I might, I can't find any info on keyboard shortcuts anywhere on the Web.
> I would use a "hide" key combo constantly. All the Utilities available for
> mapping new keystroke shortcuts seem like overkill, since I just want to do
> this one thing.

Only thing I know of right now is, if you are in an app and Option-Click on the desktop, you will hide the app and switch to the desktop.

I use OneClick to provide "Hide All" and other such things. You could install OSA Menu, which came with your OS, and have an AppleScript menu universally available. Then you could save a simple script in the Universal folder (see OSA Menu docs for details) that hides all apps and assign it any keyboard shortcut you wish by appending a certain coded suffix. For example, you might make "Cmd-Option-H" do Hide All, by adding the suffix "\H+O".

The Hide All script would look like this:

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    set apps to every process whose visible is true
    repeat with anApp in apps
        if name of anApp is not "Finder" then set visible of anApp to false
    end repeat
end tell
 
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