Searches are within a Group or Smart Group -- select the "All Macros" Smart Group to search everything.
I'm not sure you can exactly do that. You can find all globally active macro, but that wouldn't include macros scoped to the KM Editor. But gl:, when the "All Macros" Smart Group is selected, is probably near enough.
Again with the "All Macros" Smart Group selected (and bearing in mind the above), e: for all enabled macros or e: -gl: for those that are enabled but not globally active.
Rather than searching "All Macros", consider setting up Smart Groups to do what you want. For example:
I don't think you can, I think "Search" is AND, with no wildcards (would love to be proven wrong!). Again, a Smart Group helps:
...and you could select that Smart Group then use the "Search" box as normal to narrow things further.
It's crystal clear. Thanks very much for taking the time to write such a comprehensive reply.
Sorry for a follow-up question: I created a KM Go To Palette which allows me to quickly navigate between groups using each group's UUID and a simply AppleScript. It is very useful and I use it a lot.
Do I understand correctly that this is still not possible with smart groups (no copy UUID option in the smart group context menu) which is quite inconvenient.
Select the Smart Group in the Editor, then run the following AppleScript in Script Editor:
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
return selection
end tell
The result will be of the form
{smart group id "4FCAA4C2-4460-4961-9BB7-269E5048CFB7" of application "Keyboard Maestro"}
Copy the smart group id "..." bit and paste into another script so you get
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
select smart group id "4FCAA4C2-4460-4961-9BB7-269E5048CFB7"
end tell
Select a different Group in KM, run the above, and your Smart Group should be selected.
Depending on how you've done your Palette and its macros, the above may be enough. If you've got clever and each macro on the Palette simply passes a UUID to a shared sub-routine there may be a bit more work to do because of the different classes...
Tedious typing? Sounds like a job for KM and the "Insert Text" action!
And you don't have to type it that often unless, for some reason, you are continually making, using, then deleting the Smart Group. In which case:
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
set theGroup to (make new smart group with properties {name:"AS-created Fn Match", search strings:{"h:F1 -h:F11 -h:F12 -h:F13 -h:F14 -h:F15 -h:F16 -h:F17 -h:F18 -h:F19"}})
select theGroup
end tell
If you want to make other Smart Groups on the fly like this, the easiest way to get the search strings entry is to make the Group how you want it, select it, then run:
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
return search strings of (item 1 of (get selection))
end tell
Thank you very much for the scripts. I apologize for poorly thought through and worded question. In fact, it was an academic question about searches, not a question about that specific Fn search.
if I write h:F1, I end up with F1, F11, F12 etc. How would I write my search so that I end up with F1 only.
Sorry again for a very poorly phrased question
thank you very much for the scripts. I will try them out.
Literally "find all the macros with hotkey triggers that contain F1 but not those with hotkey triggers that contain F11 and not those with hotkey triggers that contain F12...".
in fact, that it what I meant when I referred to tedious to write in my poorly worded question. For fun, I am listening to the course on Shakespeare in "The Great Courses" (repertory of university lectures). Hopefully, I will be able to express myself more clearly, using better language and ... metaphors.
I just discovered another issue - how could I include macro GROUP triggers (hotkeys that trigger macro groups - as in shows a palette) in the search for hotkeys.
My Smart Group search for F19 yielded nothing, but I can't use F19 which is already taken, as shown below.
If you want to search Group attributes I think you are going to have to step out and use AS. This is working for me, and I've included a list of Function key keycodes -- just change the integer value of the whose clause to suit (this searches for F19):
(* Function key keycodes
F1 122
F2 120
F3 99
F4 118
F5 96
F6 97
F7 98
F8 100
F9 101
F10 109
F11 103
F12 111
F13 105
F14 107
F15 113
F16 106
F17 64
F18 79
F19 80
F20 90
*)
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
set groupList to every macro group whose activation xml contains " <key>KeyCode</key>
<integer>80</integer>
"
if (count of groupList) = 0 then
display dialog "Function key not used as Group trigger"
else
set selection to groupList
end if
end tell
works perfectly.
And what about if I want to list all macro GROUP hotkeys and corresponding macro group ?
As if I created a smart group listing all macro groups and their hotkeys ?
I ask this because I think that it's a common problem. The number of times where I have been searching macro groups one by one to remember their hotkeys !
thank you !
I think that the best thing you could do would be to start documenting your hot key usage. A simple spreadsheet would go a long way, and would let you easily include application availability, window conditions, what the activation type is, and so on. Much more useful than a list of hot keys that may, or may not, be available in a particular context.
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It turns out that firing gethotkeys at the Engine gets you a list of currently available hot key triggered items for the current context. The list includes Groups! The Group entries have a particular format:
<key>name</key>
<string>Palette Test [Macro Group]</string>
<key>sort</key>
<string>)Palette Test [Macro Group]</string>
...the name appended with <space>[Macro Group] and an odd prepend on the sort string. That may be enough to separate and process Groups -- if I can work out how to parse the XML. </Placeholder>
Otherwise, to generate a list of all Group hot keys you are going to have to get every macro that has a KeyCode but that is not32767. Extract the KeyCode and Modifiers values. Then translate those into something readable. Hmmm...
Try this. It should give you a "Display dialog" showing tab-separated Group UUID, name, hot key, and modifiers:
Turned out to not be as difficult as I thought -- probably because I've taken some shortcuts which may, or may not, limit its reliability But this should get you a list of Macro Groups and their hot keys, limited to only those available in the current context:
But this should get you a list of Macro Groups and their hot keys, limited to only those available in the current context: