applescript

I'm an avid Keyboard Maestro user and I need a workaround for triggering a keyboard shortcut like ⌘⇧L (externally, without Keyboard Maestro). So I thought a bash script would be capable of doing such a thing. An AppleScript or an Automator workflow would be sufficient, too. I anybody could help me this would be great. You don't have to read this, but here's why I want to do what I want to do: I have a the same string assigned to various Markdown macros, I use a string instead of Hotkeys because it's much more memorable for me since my brain already is filled with so many application shortcuts.

Just wondering if I can convert a "watch me do" event in Automator to applescript and then edit the resulting code? I've got a recording of entering a query (i.e. Apple1) into Google, but I'd like the query to increase ++ for each loop of the recording, so the result is Apple1, then the next loop would be Apple2, Apple3, etc. I know increments are elementary in programming, but I'm just not sure how to do it using Automator and/or applescript. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It may be simpler just doing it all in Applescript. Example: set counter to 0 set theTerm to "apple" repeat 4

I'm running the following applescript: tell application "Finder" set input to POSIX file "/Users/sam/Desktop/Resized" set theFiles to (every file of folder input whose name does not contain "- Resized") end tell return theFiles It's working as it should, though it's returning: {document file "HighResCat.jpg" of folder "Resized" of folder "Desktop" of folder "sam" of folder "Users" of startup disk of application "Finder", document file "madonna.jpg" of folder "Resized" of folder "Desktop" of folder "sam" of folder "Users" of startup disk of application "Finder"} where I need a POSIX path (

The following script worked fine before upgrading to Office 365 and OSX 10.10: tell application "Microsoft Outlook" set newMessage to make new outgoing message tell newMessage make new attachment with properties {file:"/Users/foo/file"} end tell open newMessage end tell But now it gives this error message: execution error: Microsoft Outlook got an error: Error while saving the changed record property. (-2700) Has the procedure changed or is this a bug in either OSX or Outlook? The path must be an alias or a posix file . Convert a posix path like this: set x to "/Users/foo/file" as POSIX file -

I was trying to find a solution to this because I am using Vim and most of the time I need Caps lock to be assigned to Ctrl. There are times though that I want the Caps Lock working normally. I thought an Apple Script is great as it can be assigned to a LaunchBar action. I will answer with the solution I ended up with (through GUI scripting) but would be interested in a less intrusive solution if someone knows a way... You can use PCKeyboardHack to change caps lock to F19. Then save this as private.xml : <?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <item> <name>caps1</name> <identifier>caps1</identifier>

Trying to figure out how to open python from word vba, on mac computers, and return a value using the code below. I need to be able to run this code from word vba without calling a specific python file, this will be run on multiple computers so I can't assume they have my premade python file downloaded. All I've seen is people calling a premade file with the script already in it. Here is my Python Code: import urllib2 web1 = urllib2.urlopen('website.com') #website url print(web1.read()) Any suggestions or links to a place that could help? Edit: Current Working Code myAppleScript = "do shell