Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
The Readme file has full instructions. If anyone has questions after that, feel free to ask. I'll also say that the list archives contain messages I've written in the past, so may be of some help as well. > On Jul 26, 2016, at 13:52, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > > thanks Alex! > > Caitlyn > >> On

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-26 Thread Caitlyn Furness
thanks Alex! Caitlyn > On Jul 25, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Here's the link. Remember that, for reasons I've never discovered, the > time/date script fails, as does the ram script. Ram I'm not worried about, as > changes in the way 10.9 and newer manage it render the numbers not

RE: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah wouldn't mind it myself. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caitlyn Furness Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2016 5:27 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread E.T.
All you need to know is supplied in that archive. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/25/2016 8:19 PM, 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries wrote: how can i use the skripps -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread 'Adrian Leong' via MacVisionaries
how can i use the skripps -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread Scott Berry
Alex, Thank you very much. > On Jul 25, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Here's the link. Remember that, for reasons I've never discovered, the > time/date script fails, as does the ram script. Ram I'm not worried about, as > changes in the way 10.9 and newer manage it render the numbe

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread Alex Hall
Here's the link. Remember that, for reasons I've never discovered, the time/date script fails, as does the ram script. Ram I'm not worried about, as changes in the way 10.9 and newer manage it render the numbers not very useful. Time/date is oddly broken and I don't yet know why. The rest *shoul

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread Caitlyn Furness
If that somebody could also post that file here, it’d be great! thanks! Caitlyn > On Jul 25, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Scott Berry wrote: > > I don’t remember who did the scripts for all the cool things for Apple > script for Vo. But does anyone have a zipped copy they could send to me I > ne

Re: apple scripts for battery percentage and other things

2016-07-25 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I'm thinking it was Alex Hall, but don't quote me on that. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Scott Berry" To: "Mac Visionaries" Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 10:34 AM Subject: apple

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I would like to say that I really appreciate the effort that has been put into making these Apple scripts available. Please keep up the wonderful work. I got the battery one to work finally. It didn’t at first because it took me a while to figure out I had to put in the key into where V

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-24 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Dear Nic, great, that works fabulously. Thanks for your help. All the best Jürgen > Am 21.11.2014 um 06:24 schrieb Nicholas Parsons > : > > Hi Jürgen, > > Not sure if you ever got this working the way you wanted—I haven't been > checking the list for a while. If not, try this: > > tell app

RE: Apple Scripts

2014-11-21 Thread george b
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugenia Firth Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 11:04 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple Scripts Hello Alex I might be doing something wrong, but I tried three times to get Safari to call up the link you sent. It keeps telling me that the

RE: Apple Scripts

2014-11-21 Thread george b
Go look in your download folder mine went in there From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugenia Firth Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 05:39 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Apple Scripts I have a really elementary

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hello Alex I might be doing something wrong, but I tried three times to get Safari to call up the link you sent. It keeps telling me that the content is empty. Thanks. Gigi > On Nov 21, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Here's a zip file of a few scripts I wrote. There's a Readme file

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-21 Thread Alex Hall
Here's a zip file of a few scripts I wrote. There's a Readme file in there that explains how to use them, since they all rely on a couple scripts that have to live in the same folder as the ones you want to use. Most scripts are stand-alone, but these aren't. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
I have a really elementary question to ask here. AppleScript I really would like is one we have talked about before, a command to read the battery power. However, if I had an AppleScript file, where do you put it so voiceover can find it and use it? , I have not a clue how to write them. I thin

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Jürgen, Not sure if you ever got this working the way you wanted—I haven't been checking the list for a while. If not, try this: tell application "VoiceOver" tell commander perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor" delay 1 perform command

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Delay is the applescript command for a pause. I believe its argument is in seconds. If you really need, I can look that up for you. Also, I discovered the error in my previous post about the mouse click. It should have been tell mouse cursor to click twice The twice can be once, twice, or thri

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-11 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Nic, great, that’snearly what I needed. :-) Is there a way to implement a pause before the script performs a mouse click? Waht I experienced was the click sound immediately after running the script. And what happened was that the mouse clicked where it was at tis moment but not necessarily

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Jürgen, Try this: tell application "VoiceOver" tell commander perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor" perform command "click mouse" end tell -- commander end tell -- VoiceOver -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I don't have a Macintosh here. But your towel mouse command must be in your tell voiceover block Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > if I add > >> tell mouse to click once > > Script editor says "mouse" is a variable and not defined. >

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Alex Hall
I use this script in Xcode, and it works. You're right, though, that it is only holding or releasing the mouse, not both. Simply change the line: key code 49 using {control down, option down, command down, shift down} to: key code 49 using {control down, option down, shift down} an

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Jonathan, if I add > tell mouse to click once Script editor says "mouse" is a variable and not defined. If I just right > click once Script Editor tells me there was an error 4. So that didn't work. Do you still have an idea? Thanks and all the best Jürgen > Am 07.11.2014 um 13:28 sc

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You are absolutely right, I did not put in code for clicking the mouse. You will need either tell mouse to click once or possibly just click once The click command has an optional argument so you could say click twice with right button Let us know how this works I have not tried these comma

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Right now I tried the following: I deleted „command down“ in the line which should perform the click. It seems to work most of the time. Funnily enough it still performs a hold down mouse key from time to time. But what’s mor of an issue: the click doesn’t always work. The click sound occurs bu

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Alex, thanks a lot. It worked so far that the mouse performed a click but obviously it was not a normal click but a hold down click. So I had to release the mouse cursor manually. Could you have a look on the script and help me to understand, wether I’mright in this? And are you willing to a

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Jonathan, thanks for your help. I tried it out and it worked partially. What seemed to happen is that the mouse cursor is routed to VO cursor. But no click happens. As far as I can understand the script there's no action defined for that. Is that true? So I wonder wether you are willing to a

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Oh, to play a sound there is definitely a way to do this, and the shutdown unix command can be used for restarts and shutdowns. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 6, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wonder wether it was very complicated to create 2 scripts for the follow

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This should work. tell application "VoiceOver" tell commander to perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor" end tell see http://www.cbtbc.org/tools/asvo/voec.php for details. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gr

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Alex Hall
I don't know about the second one, but I recently made a script similar to the first one. I use key commands, since the scripting dictionary for VoiceOver doesn't allow the mouse cursor to be moved. Since you can't change VO's default commands, though, this should still work. tell application

Re: apple scripts

2011-11-09 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Take the scripts and copy them to Mac HD/library/scripts. Then in voiceover utilities set up a keyboard commander shortcut for the script. Let me know if you need more help with this. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Nov 9, 2011,

Re: apple scripts for weather

2011-05-25 Thread Jon Cohn
Well, here is a start... This does not fully work because the "make new" functions are not actually making a new window / tab . Also a shell script (UNIX) using curl and say would be only three lines and would be a little more responsive, though you would need to get a little fancy with "sed"

Re: apple scripts for weather

2011-05-25 Thread Isaac Obie
Hello Chad, I use brailleunderground with the Mac. It does a nice job. Why recreate the wheel when it isn't necessary? I just setup a link to brailleunderground. Isaac - Original Message - From: "chad" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:07 AM Subject: apple scripts for weather hi