You would have had to have done more than that, because those two steps will simply move you to another group in the groups panel.
This is why I wasn’t content with edit macros "All Macros", because that leaves the focus in the group name field.
My macro moves focus away from the group name field making it more difficult for the user to screw things up.
If you simply must have some error-checking in there:
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try
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
tell (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow")
tell group 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of group 1
if accessibility description ≠ "All Macros" then
error "Your “All Macros” group appears to be missing!"
end if
end tell
selectAllMacrosGroup() of me
tell scroll area 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 to set focused to true
end tell
end tell
end tell
on error e number n
set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
if n ≠ -128 then
try
tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
(display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
default button "OK" giving up after 30)
if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
end try
end if
end try
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on selectAllMacrosGroup()
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
editMacro "All Macros"
end tell
end selectAllMacrosGroup
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Open the Keyboard Maestro Editor Macro Edit History menu for viewing or type-selecting an item.
-Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2016/08/11 22:43
# dMod: 2016/08/11 22:53
# Appl: System Events & Keyboard Maestro Editor
# Task: Access the Macro Edit History Menu of the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @System_Events, @Keyboard_Maestro, @Editor, @History
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tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
tell window "Keyboard Maestro Editor"
tell button 1 of group 5
perform action "AXShowMenu" -- Open the History Button Menu.
end tell
end tell
end tell
key code 125 -- Select the first menu item.
end tell
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SHARE THE SELECTED ITEMS IN THE KEYBOARD MAESTRO EDITOR TO THE FORUM
Hey Folks,
I finally got tired of doing this manually. The macro takes you to the point of sharing {Both} to the forum – just as if you manually clicked through the process.
-Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2016/08/11 22:43
# dMod: 2016/08/11 23:19
# Appl: System Events & Keyboard Maestro Editor
# Task: Share the Selected Items in the Keyboard Maestro Editor to the Forum.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @System_Events, @Keyboard_Maestro, @Editor, @Send, @Forum
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tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
set frontmost to true
tell window "Keyboard Maestro Editor"
tell group 2
tell button 1
perform action "AXShowMenu" -- Open the Share Button Menu.
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
keystroke "k"
key code 36
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
tell window "Keyboard Maestro Editor"
tell button "Both" of sheet 1
perform action "AXPress"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2016/08/11 22:43
# dMod: 2016/08/11 23:51
# Appl: System Events & Keyboard Maestro Editor
# Task: Select the Next Edited Macro.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @System_Events, @Keyboard_Maestro, @Editor, @Select, @Previously, @Run, @Macro
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tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
set frontmost to true
tell window "Keyboard Maestro Editor"
tell group 4
tell button 2
if enabled = true then
perform action "AXPress" -- Select the Next Edited Macro
else
beep
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
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Toggle the enabled/disabled state of the selected macro(s) – no matter what is selected in the Keyboard Maestro editor.
Run from an Execute an AppleScript action.
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2016/12/20 08:00
# dMod: 2016/12/20 08:08
# Appl: System Events & Keyboard Maestro Editor
# Task: Toggle the Enabled-Disabled state of the selected macros.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @System_Events, @Keyboard_Maestro, @Toggle, @Enabled, @Disabled, @State, @Selected, @Macros
# Note: Likely to fail on non-English language systems due to localization issues.
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tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
tell (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow")
tell (first button whose accessibility description is "Enable or Disable Macro")
perform action "AXPress"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
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Here’s how to automate the [Rename] contextual-menu item for the selected action.
If more than one action is selected then the contextual-menu pops open to allow you to type-select.
Run it from an Execute an AppleScript action.
-Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2017/05/22 14:45
# dMod: 2017/05/22 14:53
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro Editor
# Task: Select Rename in the contextual menu of the selected action.
# : If more than 1 action is selected bring up the contextual menu.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Keyboard_Maestro, @System_Events, @Select, @Rename, @Contextual_Menu, @Menu, @Selected, @Action
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tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
tell window "Keyboard Maestro Editor"
tell group 1
tell splitter group 1
tell scroll area 3
set selectedGroups to groups whose selected is true
if selectedGroups ≠ {} then
set theAction to item 1 of selectedGroups
tell theAction
perform action "AXShowMenu"
tell menu 1
tell menu item "Rename…"
perform action "AXPress"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
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EDIT: Never mind. Try to imagine the dumbest possible reason this might have failed to work.
This is really useful. I tried to modify it to work for “Enable/Disable” but I can’t get it to work. I put this where you have tell menu item "Rename…": if menu item "Disable" exists then tell menu item "Disable" perform action "AXPress" end tell else if menu item "Enable" exists then tell menu item "Enable" perform action "AXPress" end tell end if
Peter spent a lot of effort making Keyboard Maestro 8 more AppleScriptable. (Thank you Peter!)
And this makes many things easy to do that were difficult or impossible in previous versions of KM.
When I’m testing something in Keyboard Maestro or creating a new macro I almost always use (or at least start out with) the same test macro:
Generic-Test 01
Therefore I want to get to that macro quickly quite often.
Using the following script I can manage that spectacular feat with a keystroke.
The user is REQUIRED to provide names for their test-group and test-macro — see User Settings in the script.
If the designated group or the macro don’t exist they will be created as necessary.
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2014/08/21 21:37
# dMod: 2017/11/17 04:46
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro
# Task: Edit 'Generic Test 1' Macro of macro group 'Test Group'.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Keyboard_Maestro_8, @KM8, @Editor, @Edit, @Macro
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try
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# User Settings:
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set macroGroupName to "Test Group"
set macroName to "Generic-Test 01"
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tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
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# Make sure the designated macro group and macro exist.
# Create one or both of them as necessary.
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if (exists of macro group macroGroupName) = false then
set newGroup to make new macro group with properties {name:macroGroupName}
select newGroup
end if
if (exists of macro macroName) = false then
tell macro group macroGroupName
set newMacro to make new macro with properties {name:macroName}
select newMacro
return --» script ends here IF a new macro is created.
end tell
end if
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# Select the macro group if necessary.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
if selected of macro group macroGroupName = false or length of (get selected macro groups) > 1 then
select macro group macroGroupName
end if
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# Select the macro for editing.
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editMacro macroName
------------------------------------------------------------------------
end tell
on error e number n
set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
if n ≠ -128 then
try
tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
(display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
default button "OK" giving up after 30)
if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
end try
end if
end try
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When I write a macro for someone else and sometimes when I’ve accomplished a difficult bit of testing, I often want to save the final result in my “e_Examples” macro group.
It’s named that way, so it sorts a the top of the groups starting with “e”. That way I can hit one keystroke to move the focus in the editor to the group pane and then “e” to get to that group.
I used to have to copy my new creation and then go through the above rigamarole to get to the examples group and then paste.
Now with Keyboard Maestro 8 I can move the selected macros with an AppleScript and one keystroke.
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2017/11/17 05:58
# dMod: 2017/11/17 06:04
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro
# Task: Move the Selected Macros to a user-designated macro group.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Keyboard_Maestro_8, @KM8, @Move, @Selected, @Macros, @Designated, @Group
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try
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# User settings:
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set moveToGroupName to "e_Examples"
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tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
set macroSelectionList to selected macros
if macroSelectionList = {} then
error "No macros are selected!"
end if
# Disable any macros that are enabled.
repeat with theMacro in macroSelectionList
if enabled of theMacro is true then
set enabled of theMacro to false
end if
end repeat
move macroSelectionList to macro group moveToGroupName
end tell
on error e number n
set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
if n ≠ -128 then
try
tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
(display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
default button "OK" giving up after 30)
if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
end try
end if
end try
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