Save Image As

Questions & Suggestions
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Hello all. This must be childs play given the wild, wonderful and wacky KM-wizardry on this forum, but cannot see where to automate:
RT-click mouse, then select Save Image As from pop-up menu. (Using Firefox)
Can anybody help?
Many thanks!

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Checkout this cool FF extension:
Shortcut keys for Firefox are controlled by this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/s3menu-wizard/developers

Using it, you could set a shortcut key for "Save Image As", then just mouse-over the image and press the shortcut key.
If need be, you can type that shortcut key from a KM Macro.

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thanks JM.
It was the latter step I was looking for. I had that Firefox addon. Thing is, being a newbie to KM, I wanted to exploit as many natural macros with it as poss.
Any chance of a pointer on how to create that shortcut key?

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Assuming you are hovering over the image, you can Right Click using the Move or Click Mouse action. Then add a short Pause to allow the menu to appear, then use the Insert Text by Typing action to type the name of the selection - finish the text with %Return% to type a return keystroke to select the menu item.

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Many thanks!
I tried your suggestion. Oddly, Insert Text by Typing: “Save Image As…”, Firefox offered me the option to Save As Desktop Background.
Figuring the context menu was responding curiously, I tried other variables.
This one appears to work:

Right Click using the Move or Click Mouse action. (@ 0,0 relative to mouse position)
Short Pause (0.2 secs)
Insert Text by Typing: “View Image”
(Finish action with %Return%) This can remain discretionary while user selects appropriate folder.

Can’t explain why the popup menu wrongly selects Save Image As…
But it seems to.

thanks for your assistance!

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Try typing it yourself.

One possibility is maybe the space is not really a space, maybe its a non-breaking space or some other foolishness.

Also the … may be three dots or it may be an ellipsis (…). I would not try to type that. And indeed, you want to type the minimum required to uniquely identify the menu item.

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Hey @si_the_dog,

The problem is that Firefox does not use standard OSX APIs to build its interface elements.

Using Firefox 48.0.2 type-select won't work properly for me in the contextual menu - type a “v” – and an item starting with “s” is selected...

If you want finer-grained control you'll have to use Safari or Google Chrome which are scriptable.

-Chris

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Hi Chris n Peter
Many thanks. Seemed from the outset that Firefox wasn’t playing nicely.
Muffled sigh.

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It's ok. You can still love Firefox. We won't judge you. :wink:
Firefox is cool. It's my favorite "other" browser.

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yikes :slight_smile:

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Or by using the FireFox extension I mentioned above.