I'm not a professional program just a hobbiest who h as done applescripting on and off for fun and to make useful utilities for my computer.
But i've never done any script with Keyboard input. Does applescript do key input scripts?
like for example when the scrip starts , can it check if user presses the A key or the B key or whatever?
How would i do it? I'm on Macos X 10.9.5
There's no simple way to have AppleScript respond to arbitrary key events.
You can prompt the user and respond to their input, but there's no mechanism to dynamically react to individual key presses while your script is running.
Get the free application Key Codes from the OS X App Store.
Hello
You may try something like this. It will work under OS X 10.5 through 10.9.
--APPLESCRIPT return keys_pressed() on keys_pressed() do shell script "/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -w <<'EOF' require 'osx/cocoa' include OSX # get keys cc = (0x00..0x7f).select {|vk| CGEventSourceKeyState(KCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState, vk)}.inject([]) do |a, vk| ev = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(nil, vk, true) # vk down begin a << NSEvent.eventWithCGEvent(ev).charactersIgnoringModifiers.to_s rescue end a end # get modifiers m = CGEventSourceFlagsState(KCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState) mods = { KCGEventFlagMaskAlphaShift => 'capslock', KCGEventFlagMaskShift => 'shift', KCGEventFlagMaskControl => 'control', KCGEventFlagMaskAlternate => 'option', KCGEventFlagMaskCommand => 'command', } mm = mods.keys.sort.inject([]) {|a, k| m & k !=0 ? a << mods[k] : a} print %[%s\\0] % cc.join('') print %[%s\\0] % mm.join(' ') EOF" set r to result set {astid0, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, character id 0} set {k, m} to r's text items set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid0 return {string:k, modifiers:m} end keys_pressed --END OF APPLESCRIPT
Tested under OS X 10.6.8.
Hope this may help,
H
PS. Under OS X 10.10, You'd need to manually install RubyCocoa 1.2.0 which supports Ruby 2.0 or later.
http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubycocoa/files/RubyCocoa/1.2.0/
and change the ruby interpreter in script to
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
Can we check if keys pressed and Which keys were pressed?
