Fastscripts returns the hotkey combination for any script that has one using the following phrases as an example. The conventional symbols for the modifier keys plus the character used for the key show properly in a dialog (but are only partial at best in the result pane).
tell application "FastScripts"
set KeyedScript to some item of (get script items where has keyboard shortcut is true)
set KeyCombo to shortcut string of keyboard shortcut of KeyedScript
display dialog KeyCombo
end tell
KeyCombo
I’d like to do one of two things: sort on the collection of all KeyCombos including their modifier symbols, or parse those symbols for the normal words used: control, shift, option, command.
AppleScript’s Unicode capabilities are not perfect yet.
The modifier keys are present, but non MacRoman characters are lost in the result window of Script Editor (and also in Script Debugger)
try this to filter the characters
tell application "FastScripts"
set KeyedScript to some item of (get script items where has keyboard shortcut is true)
set KeyCombo to shortcut string of keyboard shortcut of KeyedScript
repeat with i in characters of KeyCombo
my say_characters(contents of i)
end repeat
end tell
on say_characters(c)
if c is «data utxt2303» as Unicode text then
say "control"
else if c is «data utxt2318» as Unicode text then
say "command"
else if c is «data utxt2325» as Unicode text then
say "option"
else if c is «data utxt21E7» as Unicode text then
say "shift"
else
say c
end if
end say_characters
With a few alterations, this does it very nicely. What I was missing was the «data utxtabcd» codes for them. Where are they? I didn’t encounter them while pawing around.
Great. Now if I can tell between the “help” key (which shows up as a question mark) from the question mark itself, and refine the treatment of F-keys so as not to get F, 1, 3 for F13, I’ll be there. A bit more fiddling.
