Hi everyone. I’m trying to setup Keyboard Maestro with Hazel to turn my mac into a “robot” that runs KM macros using info from .rtf files… I’ve asked in the Hazel forum but haven’t found a solution yet. Does anybody have any ideas how to get this working?
I’m trying to create a mac “robot” that runs macros when instructions are sent to it via email. The instructions are sent as .rtf file attachments. I want to create a drip-feed system for processing .rtf files that are emailed to my mac. I’ve setup my email to automatically download the attachments into my download folder. I’ve also set hazel to monitor the download folder for the incoming .rtf file (I have all of this working.) I have Keyboard Maestro setup to read the lines of the .rtf files into variables and launch the macro. I just don’t know the best way to process the .rft files with keyboard maestro in the order they were downloaded… and in a way that doesnt kick off another macro until the currently running macro is finished. I hope this makes sense.
Lets say for example that I send a .rtf file to the “robot” to run a specific keyboard maestro macro… and then I send another .rtf file before the current macro is finished running… how do I setup Keyboard Maestro to process the .rtf files in the order they were received? So that the new file doesn’t kick off another macro until the current macro has finished running? These macros are using mouse clicks, etc… so only one macro can run at any time… Or if you have any other ideas of how this could be done please let me know… I really appreciate any other suggestions you may have how to get this working. Thank you so much!
Aaron