Quicker way to Enable and Disable actions?

[dragonfliesmusic]

Is there a quicker way to enable and disable an action than right clicking and selecting it from the KM menu? A hotkey shortcut perhaps?

**Note, I did peruse the users manual for this, but kept searching....and searching....and searching....

[hemicyon]

I use this macro in a Keyboard Maestro-only group:

How to set a keybinding to enable/disable action / multiple actions?

Luckily for you, I made a macro to perform this exact function just earlier today, as I also had a similar setup in 7+ and earlier and quickly missed it upon upgrading to 8. There are surely other ways to do this (I saw one solution by the inimitable @ccstone that used GUI scripting) but so far this method is working well for me. (You will of course need to change the shortcut to one you prefer, but that should go without saying at this point ) Enable:Disable.kmmacros (2.3 KB) [image]

[dragonfliesmusic]

Interesting. I don't think that I want to go so far as to program an actual command for this. I was just hoping that there was a shortcut. But thank you for the response : )

[Airy]

@dragonfliesmusic

I was just hoping that there was a shortcut. But thank you for the response : )

It's very easy to create a shortcut. Just create a macro with your favourite shortcut key and add this action to it:

This will enable or disable the currently selection (single) action. If you want it to work on multiple actions, I'll need more time to think about that.

[hemicyon]

@dragonfliesmusic

Interesting. I don't think that I want to go so far as to program an actual command for this. I was just hoping that there was a shortcut. But thank you for the response : )

I'm not sure I understand; there's nothing to program. You can just download and install the macro then set your desired keyboard shortcut.

[Nr.5-need_input]

@Airy

This will enable or disable the currently selection (single) action. If you want it to work on multiple actions, I'll need more time to think about that

Hello Airy (@Airy)

Sorry if I made a mistake but I’m not good in making Regular Expressions. You maybe just change the RegEx into ^((Disable Action|Enable Action)|((Disable (d+) Actions|Enable (d+) Actions)))$ or something similar that maybe has no mistakes built into.

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

[Airy]

@Nr.5-need_input

Sorry if I made a mistake but I’m not good in making Regular Expressions. You maybe just change the RegEx into ^((Disable Action|Enable Action)|((Disable (d+) Actions|Enable (d+) Actions)))$ or something similar that maybe has no mistakes built into.

If you say that worked, I believe you. Good job.

[Nr.5-need_input]

@Airy

If you say that worked, I believe you. Good job.

Thanks for that compliment... but I’m just guessing on the Expression… it’s possible I made some heavy mistakes.

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

[Nige_S]

@Airy

If you want it to work on multiple actions, I'll need more time to think about that.

This should do one or many actions:

^(Dis|En)able (\d+ )?Action(s)?$

Short but explicit.

[Airy]

@Nige_S

Short but explicit.

I'm glad you helped out. That was a sweet solution.

[Nr.5-need_input]

@Nige_S

Short but explicit

Thanks Nige (@Nige_S)

I knew I wasn’t completely right on my suggestion I made above.

Hopefully I get better on Regular Expressions.

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

[Nige_S]

@Nr.5-need_input

I knew I wasn’t completely right on my suggestion I made above.

I don't think you were wrong, either (although I haven't tested it).

In many ways yours is more "correct" -- for example, my regex will match what we want but will also give a "false" match on

Enable Actions

...where there's no number but "Action" is plural. And, similarly, with

Enable 27 Action

Not a problem in this case so we can go with my looser simplified regex.