![]() To do this, I’ve taken a screenshot of that session to use as the example:ĭepending on the placement of the window and the number of sessions in Audio Hijack, that block could be anywhere. But Keyboard Maestro will match my sample image against the contents of the screen, find the right area, and then click on it. At which point I can run the rest of the macro using keyboard shortcuts and menu items. Keyboard Maestro’s interface could use a refresh-it still drives me batty that I can’t leave its library of Actions open all the time, and that they appear in a slide-up pane that covers my library of macros. Keyboard Maestro costs $36 and there’s a free trial.īut its power can’t be denied, and its ability to find specific items on the screen has solved several automation problems that I thought were unsolvable. ![]() If you want to automate actions on your Mac, especially if you never want to write a line of AppleScript or any other code, you owe it to yourself to check it out. If you appreciate articles like this one, support us by becoming a Six Colors subscriber. Subscribers get access to an exclusive podcast, members-only stories, and a special community.The macro is very simple if you know any programming languages at all. LastControl = NowControl // remember the time this tap of the Control key If LastControl > NowControl - 1.0 then // if the last tap of the Control key happened less than 1.0 seconds ago LastControl = 0 // if the variable LastControl is undefined, set it to 0 If you were going to write this in a text programming language, it would look something like this: NowControl = SECONDS() // get the current time in seconds since boot. ![]() Keyboard Maestro is simply a visual programming language. Ironically, I’d not actually in favor of visual programming languages for most purposes because, as seen above, the text version is not much harder to understand.
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