Can't trigger Conflict Palette with 'Type a keystroke'

Questions & Suggestions
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I’m wanting to pop up the Conflict palette from inside a macro by using the ‘Type a keystroke’ action, but it doesn’t appear to work…

Triggered by any of the following:
Trigger iconAt Engine Launch
Will execute the following actions:
Set System Output Volume to 19%
Comment ‘Open Conflict Palette for Layouts’
Pause for 5.0 Seconds
Type the ⌃⌥⌘Key Pad + Keystroke

I’ve tried with a Hotkey, Login, Engine Launch … all no go. Anything obvious I’m missing, or is it not possible?

Thanks!

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As a general rule, no. When Keyboard Maestro simulates a key it deliberately disables the associated hot keys. Or at least it tries to, its really not guaranteed as to what will happen if you type a key and have a hot key of the same key - given the keyboard event queue, making guarantees of this sort of thing is basically impossible.

I’m not sure that there is any way to induce a conflict palette.

And in fact I have on the todo list “Execute Macro by Hot Key Trigger - to allow executing of a conflict palette”

But I’m not sure whether this will make it into 7.0.

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Thanks for the info. I managed to do it by just having an applescript to type the keystrokes. Hope nothing breaks, heh. V7 sounds interesting. I’ve seen a few posts mentioning it here, but was wondering if you had a general ETA for it’s release?

Thanks!

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ETA is always and ever “when its done”. Sometime later this year.