Idea: Pause KM Engine Action & Menu Bar Option

Questions & Suggestions
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Hey Guys,

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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2018/04/20 09:54
# dMod: 2018/04/20 09:55
# Appl: Keyboard Maestro Engine
# Task: Quit and restart the Keyboard Maestro Engine
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Quit, @Restart, @Keyboard_Maestro_Engine, @Engine
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tell application id "com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.engine"
   if running then
      quit
   else
      launch
   end if
end tell

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This sort of thing is a good reason to have FastScripts on your system – even the free version which has unlimited menu scripts and 10 available keyboard shortcuts. (For $9.95 U.S. you get unlimited global and app-specific keyboard shortcuts.)

I currently have 25 AppleScripts that drive the Keyboard Maestro Editor in various ways, and they're all in FastScripts – because I don't want Keyboard Maestro driving itself – particularly since its dead in the water when the engine isn't running.

I need a number of my scripts to work when the KM Engine is not running,

There are many other advantages.

  • Testing AppleScripts using a different run mechanism.
  • Offloading long-running processes that reduce performance of the other app.
  • More I can't think of pour le moment.

I'm still using it alongside Keyboard Maestro 15 years after I bought it, because there's synergy having both – and that lets me get more work done.

I feel the same way about Typinator. Although Keyboard Maestro will do most of what Typinator will do (albeit a little more awkwardly), Keyboard Maestro can't do text-expansions in its own running UI Actions – Typinator can – and vice versa.

Once again there's good synergy between the two utilities.

-Chris

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