I don’t think you can send a keystroke to an inactive application. But you can hide an app immediately after activating it and executing code for it. This does however, cause the app to briefly flash before it hides, unless the app is running in fullscreen. tell application “System Events” tell application “X” to activate … Read more
Sure it works. System events can perform keystrokes. However, keystrokes are always sent to the frontmost application so to perform a shortcut for an application you must tell that app to activate first and then perform the shortcut. For example, I can open a new tab in Safari using command-t. That applescript would look like … Read more
Allright, I’m stupid. There’s a command-line tool called security that does just this (and lots of other actions on keychains). An example usage: security dump-keychain -d login.keychain This will dump all the data in the login.keychain (the default keychain for a user) as plaintext, including the passwords. You still have to confirm access , but … Read more
If you want to send AppleScript from your application and need a sandboxed app, you need to create a temporary entitlement You need to add those two keys in your info.plist <key>NSAppleScriptEnabled</key> <true/> <key>OSAScriptingDefinition</key> <string>MyAppName.sdef</string> …of course you have to change “MyAppName” to your app’s name Create a .sdef file and add it to your … Read more
Run Terminal.app then use the following command: open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app –args –enable-speech-input This will launch it once using your parameter. From there you could make an alias to make it easier to launch from the terminal or write an AppleScript to make it double clickable. Find more information here.
First connect to the server and wait for 6 seconds (you can change that) and then execute whatever you need on the remote server using the same tab tell application “Terminal” set currentTab to do script (“ssh user@server;”) delay 6 do script (“do something remote”) in currentTab end tell
This will work: tell application “Safari” tell window 1 set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:”http://www.stackoverflow.com”}) end tell end tell
Quick open lost its value to me. What you can do until the bug is fixed / scope can be specified: Use: Cmd + Shift + J Then type the file you want to ‘Quick open’. This is restricted to the files in the project Navigator.
In Terminal, the command : system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType gives you all the details about Bluetooth, including devices paired, with their names, MAC address. Result is unfortunately a bit too much, but with sed or grep command, you should extract what you need.
Objective-C version: NSArray *fileURLs = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:fileURL1, /* … */ nil]; [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] activateFileViewerSelectingURLs:fileURLs];