Trying to make two states for one key on Premiere Pro

Questions & Suggestions
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Hello everybody!
I’m trying to set the Escape key to do two actions in Premiere Pro:

  • when using the software without any small window (or popup window) open, I want it to trigger a keyboard shortcut (toggle source/program focus).
  • when there is a window open (preferences or any other popup window), I want the escape key to do what it does by default: cancel/close the window.

KM does not recognize any buttons and does not recognize the screenshot of the cancel button, so I’m looking for a variable or something like: once there is a window open, use the regular escape function.

Do you think it’s possible to do that?
TIA.

Cheers!
Max

2

The accessibility API, via AppleScript, could potentially determine which windows are open.

Other than that, maybe a Found Image condition could detect the window.

3

Thanks. Found image condition is not working unfortunately.
As for AppleScript, I just don’t know how that works!

4

Me either, but someone else on the forum probably does if you ask that specific question.

5

Thanks. I asked Claude.ai and the solution he found is quite “straightforward”:

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But I’ll need to add a lot more windows titles, which is not the fastest solution.