Hello Hai, great! That works perfect. Thank you very much.
All the best Jürgen >>>>>> On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Hai Nguyen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >>>>>>> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>>>>>> • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >>>>>>> • My home page: >>>>>>> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> Sarah Alawami >> >> MSN: marri...@gmail.com >> >> Website: http://music.marrie.org >> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 >> podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com >> podcast mobile http://marrie.podbean.com/mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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