I try to make an applescript key shortcut for Preview - > "Take Screen Shot" - > "From Selection..." but I get an error message.
When I make one with "From Entire Screen" it works. So it has to do with the 3 dots in "From Selection..."
I tried to make an applescript for " From Selection..." without the dots but still get an error.
Anyone has a solution?
It isn't three dots. It is one ellipsis. Hold down option and press the semi-colon key to get an ellipsis. The standard keyboard shortcuts should handle both; however, you mention Applescript, so I'm not sure what you are doing.
It isn't three dots. It is one ellipsis. Hold down option and press the semi-colon key to get an ellipsis. The standard keyboard shortcuts should handle both; however, you mention Applescript, so I'm not sure what you are doing.
It seems to me you can't script something that needs input.
From selection means something is selected and this can't be done automatically since the system doesn't know what to select by itself.
Or did I not understand what you trying to do?
Thx,
I wanted to make a shortcut with spark deamon for this with only F16 as key.
Now I changed the allready existing shortcut cmd-shift-4 into F16.
found the key combination for ellipsis ------->>>> option-"two dots above each other"
Well what I really wanted is to capture a selection and show it directly on the desktop.
The normal shortcut (shift command 4) only captures and saves the selection but doesn't show it directly on the desktop.
So I made on my old Powermac with the application Spark Deamon a script for key F16. And put Spark Deamon in the "login items"window in System Preferences.
But in Preview in OS X 10.5.8 on the powermac It was "Grab" instead of now it is " From Selection… so I couldn't get it to work because of what I thought were 3 dots.
Now with the ellipsis it works again. Thx again.
The script is :
tell application "Preview"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Preview"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
tell menu item "Take Screen Shot"
tell menu "Take Screen Shot"
click menu item "From Selection…"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
How to applescript "Take Screen Shot" "From Selection"
