Thanks Jonathan, the substitutions sort of does what I want, except I can't get it to press enter for me and send the tweet. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 26/11/2013, at 3:44 pm, Jonathan C. Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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