NaOH
July 28, 2025, 4:00pm
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Probably worth looking at similar threads regarding Scrivener and Keyboard Maestro since in the past the two didn't play as well together as one might expect because Scrivener was slow to populate its menus.
Catalina 10.15.7
KBM 9.2
Hello,
I think that it's not necessary to know / use Scrivener to answer my question. Basically my macro does not trigger a menu item.
I want to be able to set Scrivener to Hide Page View.
The logic:
If the menu shows View ➤ Text Editing ➤ Hide Page VIew, then it means that it is currently in Show Page View and the macro should trigger Hide Page view
If the menu shows View ➤ Text Editing ➤ Show Page View, it means that Scrivener is in Hide Page View and all is fin…
It is sometimes difficult to trigger Scrivener Menu items. Thanks to @peternlewis (1) and @JMichaelTX (2) 's posts I managed to find a way to access all menu items.
My problem is now how to toggle certain menu items.
Example
I want to toggle between Current Editor Only and None
[2020-11-26_07-33-47]
I created 2 separate macros to trigger those menu items The macros look bizarre, but they the only ones that work (unless someone has a better suggestion)
[2020-11-26_07-55-10 (1)]
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