NAME
Mac::KeyboardMaestro - Run Keyboard Maestro macros
SYNOPSIS
use Mac::KeyboardMaestro qw(km_macro km_set km_get);
# set a Keybaord Maestro variable
km_set "VarName", $value;
# run a Keyboard Maestro macro
km_macro "Reticulate Splines";
# get a Keboard Maestro variable
my $result = km_get "OtherVar";DESCRIPTION
This module is a simple interface to the OS X keyboard macro program Keyboard Maestro.
The standard way recommended by the Keyboard Maestro application to talk to it via Perl is to shell out to osascript and pass that an AppleScript program that calls Keyboard Maestro. This module avoids this and talks the same AppleScript directly in process (which is quicker) and handles all the character escaping necessary to avoid executing parts of your macro/varible names and values as AppleScript by mistake.
Functions
These functions can be imported, or you can use them fully qualified. All functions throw exceptions if the AppleScript interface to Keyboard Maestro returns an error.
- km_macro $macro_name
- km_macro $macro_uuid
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Execute the named macro / macro with the passed uuid. Returns an empty list.
- km_set $varname, $value
-
Sets the value of the corrisponding Keyboard Maestro variable.
$valuewill be automatically stringified. Returns an empty list. - km_get $varname
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Gets the current value of the corrisponding Keyboard Maestro variable. Returns an empty string if the variable does not exist.
- km_delete $varname
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Deletes the corrisponding Keyboard Maestro variable. Returns an empty list.
AUTHOR
Written by Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Mark Fowler 2012. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Keyboard Maestro itself is copyright Stairways Software Pty Ltd. Neither Mark Fowler nor this Perl library is associated with Keyboard Maestro or Stairways Software Pty Ltd.
BUGS
Bugs should be reported via this distribution's CPAN RT queue. This can be found at https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Mac-KeyboardMaestro
You can also address issues by forking this distribution on github and sending pull requests. It can be found at http://github.com/2shortplanks/Mac-KeyboardMaestro