Hi All,
Someone posted a while back in search of an Apple script to get the battery
status on a MacBook. I've gone into the list archives and found this, which
I've bound to right-option-b in the keyboard commander. I can' claim credit
for it, but I hope its useful to anyone who wants it. It's pasted below. Make
sure you format it properly when getting this into AppleScript Editor.
Hope this helps,
Zack.
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(* 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
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