I looked at the Night Owl program and it does not accept Apple Events. For the dictionary idea if you go to keyboard system preferences there is an area to set up keyboard expansion. I understand this also syncs with the iPhone too. Quite a few folks like Keyboard Maestro which interacts directly with the Apple's accessability API's to add task and text expansion.
I don't know any blind folks that currently use non-Apple keyboard expansion utilities at the moment. Adam Angst did write up how he automated publishing e-books to PDF and ePUB using a keyboard macro tool. You should be able to find that article in the TIDBITS.com archive. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > Thanks Ricardo, that’s an interesting idea. Do you know if there’s a way of > embedding a press of the return key in a keyboard dictionary entry? > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > On 26/11/2013, at 10:28 am, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How about setting up a dictionary shortcut? Like for example, many people >> use this feature on there iPhone when texting. You would write I don’t >> know., and it would expand out to I don’t know. You could use 2 symbols >> like gl and would expand to your hash tag. I know its not very elegant, >> but, I think it would work for you. >> >> hth >> >> Ricardo Walker >> [email protected] >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, I’d be very grateful for any advice from people with much more >>> knowledge of Automater and Apple Script than I have. >>> I have what I think is quite a simple task but I’m not sure about the best >>> tool or method for achieving it. >>> What I want to do is set up a key in VO so that when in the edit field for >>> typing a tweet in Night Owl/YoruFukurou, I can press a single key that >>> sends a specific string, then presses Return to send the tweet. I want to >>> do this to send a hashtag I use regularly so the string is always the same. >>> The idea is that I would write my tweet, then include this hashtag at the >>> end by pressing this single key. >>> I’m not sure if using Apple Script or Automater is the best way of getting >>> this done, and what the process would be for either. I know how to use the >>> commander to assign either a workflow or a script to a key, but actually >>> getting the task automated is where I’d appreciate the advice. >>> If anyone can provide some advice and examples, I’d really appreciate it, >>> thanks. >>> Jonathan Mosen >>> Mosen Consulting >>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training >>> http://Mosen.org >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
