Add Ability to Insert 'Favorite Actions' by Name Search Bar

[Zabobon]

@appleianer

Actually, @peternlewis has thought this through correctly.

The thing that makes these new Favorite Actions super-powerful is that they sync between machines (if syncing is turned on) with no new setting needed by the User. Yes, Peter has thought it through very well and kept it nice and simple.

[Zabobon]

@Zabobon

So, I think it's not going to take too much to bolt the two Macros together and do first one thing and then the other with the same key press.

So, for what it's worth, the below Macro works to do this:

First press of the hotkey (in my case Alt+A) would bring up this (as it does already). And I have typed "prompt" as what I am searching for. So, I get a search for any of my Favorite Actions that contain the word "prompt":

While this search field is still open and still contains "FAV prompt" a second press of the same hotkey (in my case Alt+A) removes "FAV" from the head of the search to open up the search to all inbuilt Actions containing the word "prompt":

[ccstone]

@DanThomas

@ccstone I think you have KM 10. Can you think of a way to determine if the prompt is being displayed? Maybe some simple AppleScript? Thanks.

Hey Dan,

Yep.

-Chris

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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2021/11/06 04:24
# dMod: 2021/11/06 04:24 
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro Editor, System Events
# Task: Select Menu Item “Insert Action by Name…” and Insert “FAV ” into the Search Field.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Keyboard_Maestro, @System_Events, @Select, @Menu, @Item, @Insert, @Favorites, @Search, @Field
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tell application "System Events"
   tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
      
      # Select “Insert Action by Name…”
      tell menu bar 1
         tell menu bar item "Edit"
            tell menu 1
               tell menu item "Insert Action"
                  tell menu 1
                     tell menu item "By Name…"
                        perform action "AXPress"
                     end tell
                  end tell
               end tell
            end tell
         end tell
      end tell
      
      # Insert “FAV ” into “Insert Action by Name…” field.
      if exists of window "Insert Action By Name" then
         
         tell window "Insert Action By Name"
            tell scroll area 1
               repeat while (exists of text area 1) = false
                  delay 0.1
               end repeat
               tell text area 1
                  set value to "FAV "
               end tell
            end tell
         end tell
         
      end if
      
   end tell
end tell

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[DanThomas]

Chris - I just realized I hadn't thanked you for this. I didn't get around to using any of it until yesterday, when I started working on importing my KMFAM actions into KM's native favorites (post to come soon).