Good afternoon everyone,
Rather than going through all of the status menus just to find one small piece
of information, in this case, the battery status, I've done the following.
Please compile the following Apple script and associate it with a keyboard
commander shortcut.
Happy Holidays to all and be safe out there.
--Author Hai Nguyen Ly November 28, 2010
(*
This Apple script will querie for the battery status and speak the output. This
script works best when associated with a keyboard shortcut and used in
conjunction with VoiceOver.
*)
on isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript()
set isRunning to true
-- is AppleScript enabled on VoiceOver --
tell application "VoiceOver"
try
set x to bounds of vo cursor
on error
set isRunning to false
end try
end tell
return isRunning
end isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript
set maxCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep \"\\\"MaxCapacity\\\" =
\""
set maxLevel to the last word of maxCapacity
set curCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep
\"\\\"CurrentCapacity\\\" = \""
set curLevel to the last word of curCapacity
set battPct to round (100 * curLevel / maxLevel)
set output to "Battery " & battPct & "%"
if isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript() then
tell application "VoiceOver"
output "Battery " & battPct & "%"
end tell
else
say "Battery " & battPct & "%"
end if
Regards:
Hai
On Dec 23, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> Pressing VO Shift M twice brings yo to the status menu. read it like the
> menu bar below it; arrow over until you hear the battery status, then down
> arrow to check out more battery status and power saver options, etc.
>
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