Hi Jonathan,
I shared scripts for this sort of counting in a different post. I'm thinking
that Brian was simply commenting on these scripts, not asking for them. I
could be mistaken though. In either case, here's the gist of the script I
shared:
if application "TextEdit" is running then
tell application "TextEdit"
set WordCount to the number of words in the the front document
display dialog ("The wordcount is: " & WordCount)
end tell
else
display dialog "Error. TextEdit is not running."
end if
When the script is called with a VO Keyboard Commander shortcut, it's important
to have some error checks. I've had this one display a dialog instead of VO
just announcing the count so that it's easily read out again if needed.
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:42, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected]> wrote:
This should be a one line script, but I believe that in some some applications
it will not work.
A general script would be
tell frontmost application
set CharacterCount to the count of characters of document 1
end tell
set spokenText to "The character count is " & CharacterCount
tell application "VoiceOver" to output spokenText
delay 3 Best wishes,
The delay is there because you need to give VoiceOVer a chance to produce
output before the script exits. I am not quite sure about the frontmost
application, and it also might be that some word processors would need you to
specify a window for the document.
document of window 1 or document 1 of window 1
Also, for mail the Document property would not work but "body would work if
that is what you are after.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Feb 11, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Brian Hansen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for all of your help, as well as the scripts for iTunes. I’ve been
> wondering if there was a way to have character and word count scripts.
> Thanks again for everything.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Brian
>
>> On Feb 9, 2017, at 7:47 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Download the script for this from here:
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6iLRtMzHPEXSzQ2LWNKc3NtVzA?usp=sharing
>>
>> <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6iLRtMzHPEXSzQ2LWNKc3NtVzA?usp=sharing>
>>
>> I've made some modifications to the code I found shared by some others.
>> Should do the trick. It will return the song title and artist and say a few
>> extra things if iTunes is not running or if music is paused/stopped.
>>
>> Later...
>>
>> Tim Kilburn
>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 20:28, Brian Hansen <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> A keyboard command like that would be great.
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:10 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this a command that people would like a keyboard shortcut to do for many
>>> application?
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Jonathan Cohn
>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 3:08 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It appears that you're in Album view and my suggestion won't work in that
>>>> view. I suggest that you use a HotSpot instead. So, when a song is
>>>> playing, interact with the LCD Panel. Navigate to the title of the song
>>>> that is playing, then press VO-shift-1. This will set that exact location
>>>> as HotSpot #1. So, anytime you wish to hear the name of the currently
>>>> playing song, just press VO-1 and VO should read whatever text is at that
>>>> HotSpot location. the limitation with this method is that the HotSpots
>>>> are usually lost whenever iTunes is quit.
>>>>
>>>> Later...
>>>>
>>>> Tim Kilburn
>>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 11:59, Brian Hansen <[email protected]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Tim
>>>>
>>>> When I hit CMD-l, VO says, the phrase “current song”, and then album, but
>>>> nothing else after that. It doesn’t actually announce the song title.
>>>>
>>>> Blessings,
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> While in iTunes, you could press cmd-l to move focus to the currently
>>>>> playing song and VO should announce what it is right away.
>>>>>
>>>>> Later...
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim Kilburn
>>>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 11:45, Brian Hansen <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a built-in keyboard command, or a VO command to quickly find out
>>>>> the name of the currently playing track? I’ve got a couple of albums
>>>>> that I downloaded that I wanted to know the name and track number of the
>>>>> song I was on. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Blessings,
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian
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