Actions for right-click menus

[JeffC12]

Hi all,

Does anyone have a good way to trigger actions the right-click menus? (rather than the main menu actions).

I have some messy ways to do it, but would love to hear if anyone has figured out a clean way to do this.

• JC

[Zabobon]

As these menus are Context menus they will be different depending where the mouse pointer is or what is selected/highlighted.

If you don’t want to move the mouse by hand the simplest way is to use “just move, mouse” to a Found Image. This Found Image might be a screenshot of a square of whatever your highlight colour is when something is selected.

After that KM can replicate the right-click mouse button and you can select a specific menu item by having KM replicate typing arrow keys and/or typing the menu item name. Finally, having KM type the return key will select the item.

There are a few Threads on this already on this Forum with examples. For the Finder it is possible to invoke the menu with AppleScript:

Has Anyone Figured Out a Way to Replicate the Windows "Menu Key" on a Mac Using KM?

Thank you @eurobubba that AppleScript works perfectly for the Finder. Here it is in a Keyboard Maestro Macro. To explain again the purpose of this whole exercise: This brings up the right-click Context Menu for a selected item in the Finder without the mouse cursor/pointer having to be hovering over that item. From that point a Keyboard Maestro Macro can use the arrow keys to navigate that menu or Keyboard Maestro can type the first few letters of an item's name. And then Keyboard Maestro can …