Esther, Great. Good on you. The script that I wanted to make a short cut for is a rewrite I made of webloc. I have a folder in documents called hold. I have a short cut on the dock to the hold folder. I was using webloc to put the URL shortcut on the desktop then moving the URL shortcut to the hold folder. I changed webloc to place the URL shortcut in the hold folder. By doing this I cut out a few keystrokes. Any one that wants the rewrite of the webloc script send me a e-mail and I will send it to you.
On May 31, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Louie, > > You wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have a script in >> ~/library/scripts/Applications/Safari/ >> >> I remember that there was some talk on how to set a key stroke to >> activate these scripts. Could anyone tell me how to do this? > > > I just ran a search on the old archive by typing in "keyboard shortcut > AppleScript" and the following link popped up as the first answer: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg48097.html > (Re: Apple Script assignment) > > It gives a quick description of how to assign keyboard shortcuts for > AppleScripts using the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab of the "Keyboard & > Mouse" menu of system preferences, and has links to two other archived > posts that give detailed instructions of how to do this for two > different specific examples. You can just look at the second link, > since you don't need the excruciating detail of how AppleScripts work > that is included in the first link. Alternatively, you could have > done a search on "creating shortcuts" and gotten to Anne's > instructions on creating shortcuts as the second result in the list > (the first being your post about Spark). If you read down the thread > with Control-N twice, you'll see my comments supplementing Anne's > instructions with the note to make sure that you assign shortcuts when > the applications that use them are closed -- and why this is required. > > I keep URL links to the Mail Archive pages for both the old list at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ > > and the current list at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ > > in my Dock. You can make these links, which are called "webloc" files > (short for web location files) with an app called Weblocmaker that is > completely accessible. There's a simple GUI interface that allows you > to type or paste in the URL you want to link, enter a name for the > location, and then use a pop up button to choose whether you want to > create a Mac Web location (webloc file), a Windows Web location (URL > file), or both. The created files show up on your Desktop with the > names you assigned: name.webloc or name.url. You can mail people > these files as attachments. (If they are using Windows, send them the > name.url file.) When you open the file (e.g., with VO-Space, Command- > O, double-click with VO-Shift-Space, etc.), the web site opens in your > browser. (In my Safari setup, the site opens in a new tab.) These > files get generated when you drag and drop from the address bar to > your Desktop. Like the software app that lets us put files and > folders into the Dock without dragging and dropping, WeblocMaker is > an accessible way for VoiceOver users to create these kinds of files. > It works for both Tiger and Leopard and runs on both PowerPC and Intel > Macs (through Rosetta support for PowerPC software in Leopard). > > How to get WeblocMaker > > WeblocMaker was written for the PowerPC Macs, and the original > distribution sites are no longer active. (It used to be available as > freeware through sites like MacUpdate at: > http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16018 > but the web site for Geke Software, the site that offered the app, is > no longer in service.) You can still download it from the Internet > Archive archive backup of the original distribution site. You should > first have either Stuffit Expander or the Unarchiver installed on your > machine. I recommend using the Unarchiver, which handles most archive > file formats used by other operating systems (e.g. tar, zip, rar, > etc.) that aren't automatically expanded by your default Mac setup. > > 1) Get the Unarchiver from: > > http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html > > 2) Go to this web page: > > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.levinvideo.com/jalstuff/geke/Software/WeblocMaker/WeblocMaker.tar.bz2 > > (This is a single string with no spaces that begins with "http:" and > ends with "bz2") If you have difficulties because the string is too > long, do this in two steps: > > 2a) First go to: > > http://web.archive.org/web/ > > 2b) Tab to the text edit box and paste in: > > http://www.levinvideo.com/jalstuff/geke/Software/WeblocMaker/WeblocMaker.tar.bz2 > > and press return > > 3) You'll be at a page titled "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Use > item chooser menu (VO-I) and press "o c t" to find "Oct 20, 2006 > link". That's the date the site was archived. Either carriage return > or press VO-Space to go to this link. > > 4) Route your Mouse Cursor to your VoiceOver Cursor (VO-Command-F5) if > you do not have your Mouse cursor set to track your VoiceOver Cursor. > If you are using an updated version of Safari such as the Safari 4 > beta or a recent WebKit nightly build, you should be able to use VO- > Shift-M to bring up the contextual menu and choose the option to > "Download linked file". If you don't see this menu option, you will > need to either control-click to bring up the link menu and choose > "Download linked file" or else option-click to download the file. > "Control-click" means holding down the control key while you click the > trackpad key of your laptop, a button on your attached mouse, or press > the "5" key on a numeric keypad if you are using Leopard with NumPad > Commander turned on. Similarly, "Option-click" means holding down the > option key while you click with trackad, mouse, or "5" key of a > numeric keypad with NumPad Commander activated. > > 5) Navigate to your Downloads folder to the downloaded file, > WeblocMaker.tar.bz2.tar and open the file in Finder (e.g. with > Command- > O, Command-Down arrow, or by clicking with VO-Shift-Space). It should > unpack into a folder named WeblocMaker in the same directory. Expand > the folder with VO-backslash (or, if you are not using an English > language input keyboard, after interacting and selecting the > WeblocMaker folder, bring up the VoiceOver Commands Menu with VO-H > twice; select "Toggle Disclosure Triangle" and press return to expand > the folder). Arrow down to the WeblocMaker app, then copy it (Command- > C) and paste it into your Applications folder (Command-Shift-A to go > to Applications; Command-V to paste). > > 6) Try launching WeblocMaker and creating a Webloc file, which you can > find on your Desktop If this works, you can send the WeblocMaker > folder and the WeblocMaker.tar.bz2.tar file to the trash. > > > Put a webloc file in your Dock > > This is a really useful way to access web sites that works as an > alternative and complement to bookmarks. I keep webloc files pointed > to the old and new Mail Archive sites for the MacVisionaries list. I > select the webloc file I've created on my Desktop and use the > Automator workflow to put items in the dock from Tim Kilburn's > VoiceOver Downloads page at: > > http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html > > to put links to these webloc files in the Dock. (I usually move the > files to a folder in my Documents folder first, before using the > Automator workflow because I like to keep my Desktop clean.) Then, > when I want to do a search of our archives, I move to the Dock (VO-D), > and navigate to the webloc files. The old archives is named > "discuss" and the new archives is named "macvisionaries", so I either > type "d i" or "m a c", or I use my arrow keys to navigate. I've found > that Fn+Down arrow will move you to the three sections of the Dock > (Applications, Files & Folders, and Trash), much as VO-M moves you > through the three sections of the menu bar (Application menu, Status > menu, and Spotlight). Using VO-Space on a webloc file in the Dock > will open the Mail Archive page in a new tab in Safari, and I can just > press tab and enter my search terms. > > This is different from using the Command-1 through Command-9 shortcuts > for the first 9 bookmarks on your Safari bookmarks bar, because the > webloc location opens in a new tab -- it doesn't replace the page you > were viewing. > > Another really neat feature of webloc files is that you can mail them > as attachments to your friends. Also, if you copy the file and open > it with TextEdit (instead of the default, which is to open with > Safari), you can change the URL inside the file. Rename the webloc > file and you can use the second file for another website -- even if > you don't have WeblocMaker! Finally, if you want to track the > accessibility of web pages in different browsers, you could make > copies of the file but rename them and use Finder to change the > browser that is use in "Open with". Then you could check differences > in opening the same page in Safari and WebKit, or in Opera, if you're > monitoring advances in accessibility. > > Sorry for the long post. I've mentioned WeblocMaker a few times > before on list -- starting way back when you could still download the > application from the MacUpdate site. It's one of the posts that has > always gotten buried. I hope that a few people -- maybe Louie and > others -- will find this useful. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > louie [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
