If you do want to go the way of Quartz, I've already created a layer above it that you may want to use.
The gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/AXTyper Example Usage: irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' irb(main):002:0> require 'accessibility/string' irb(main):003:0> include Accessibility::String irb(main):004:0> events = keyboard_events_for "Hello, #{ENV['USER']}." irb(main):005:0> events.each do |event| KeyCoder.post_event event end In your case, you can try a hotkey combination like this: irb(main):004:0> events = keyboard_events_for "\\COMMAND+\\OPTION+u" irb(main):005:0> events.each do |event| KeyCoder.post_event event end And there are more details in the blog post I wrote about it: http://ferrous26.com/blog/2012/04/03/axelements-part1/ On 2012-05-02, at 9:05 AM, Joshua Ballanco wrote: > Hmm…in general I would steer clear of scripting bridge when equivalent > functionality is available elsewhere. In this case, you can make use of the > Quartz Event Services. There's a Stack Overflow answer here that should be > able to get you started: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1938509/how-to-simulate-a-low-level-keypress-on-os-x > > As for the exact problem you're facing, I'm not sure what the answer is. > Looking at the AppleScript dictionary, it seems like "command down" and > "option down" are special properties in the dictionary, but I don't recall at > the moment how to extract dictionary properties from the library. Depending > on where you extracted those numeric values from, there's a chance that they > could be different on your system (i.e. enums might change between OS > versions, since you're supposed to use them as enums and not numeric values). > > But the short answer is: your code looks fine, and using enums/numeric > constants like that should work as expected in MacRuby. Have you tried the > equivalent code in Obj-C to see if this is specific to MacRuby? > > Cheers, > > Josh > > > On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Josh Voigts wrote: > >> Is there a way to get multiple enumerations to work, like in the >> following example. I know I could be doing this with cocoa, but it's a >> small scripting project. (Also I didn't feel like loading a bridge >> support file, would that help in this case?) >> >> >> framework 'ScriptingBridge' >> >> sys = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.systemevents") >> >> COMMAND_KEY = 1264807268 >> OPTION_KEY = 1265594484 >> >> sys.keystroke("u", using: COMMAND_KEY|OPTION_KEY) >> >> >> >> It seems to only recognize the first enum... I'm probably missing >> something logically here... >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
