Alex, this is great! Where would I obtain the scripts that you so far have
done? I'd like a script that would tell me if bluetooth was enabled or
disabled, discoverable enabled or not enabled, and what devices if any are
currently connected.
The other thing that would be, especially in my professional audio
production environment to know is if you could have v o read the percentage
value of the input volume slider under system prefs/sound/input tab.
This way, at any time, with one keystroke, I could know exactly what my mike
level is set to on my input.
Chris.
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From: "Brian Fischler" <blindga...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: What would you all like to see in scripts to speak system
status?
Hey Alex,
Very cool. I would love something if possible to make using the widgets more
accessible not sure if that is possible through scripts. Also for us dummies
is there anywhere we can read up on starting out with scripts. I have never
used any except the time one that you can use through keyboard commanders
and would like to become more familiar with them. Thanks,
On May 24, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Now that I have four of them consistently working, I feel ready to share
what I've been working on for the last couple days. I am putting together
a series of Apple scripts that will speak information, using VO if it is
on or the default system speech if it is not. The ones I have so far are
CPU, ram, wifi, and date/time. The really cool bit, though, is that each
starts out by setting up a template. You can change this template, using
keywords to define what is spoken where.
Let's look at the time script as an example, since everyone likes to have
the date and time spoken differently. Right now, I have my template set
to:
$24hours:$minutes, $weekday, $month $dayOfMonth, $year
which yields, right now:
22:55, Friday, May 24, 2013
Don't like 24 hour time? All you need to do is change your template:
$12hours:$minutes $ampm, $month $dayOfMonth, $year
and you'd hear something like:
10:56 PM, Friday, May 24, 2013
My other scripts do the same thing - one keystroke, for instance, and I
know which wifi network I'm on and at what signal strength. Again, all of
these have templates with certain keywords, so you can change how the
script's information is spoken to exactly how you want it.
So, my question: what else would you all like to see? I plan one for the
space on the startup disk, and probably all other attached volumes, plus
one for battery, but what else would be handy? These scripts are really
meant to focus on quick bits of information that sighted people can use
the status menus or dashboard to quickly look at - they have immediate
access, and now we do too, plus we can fully customize the output. I make
no promises that all the ideas I receive will make it, but if enough
people ask for a certain feature, I'll try to add it in. I've thought
about weather, but I really want to just distribute the scripts and not
have any additional libraries or anything that you'd have to install. I'll
look more into weather at some point. So, any small pieces of information
you'd like to have one-key access to, let me know. thanks.
Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
mehg...@gmail.com
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