1 day ago You can use custom shortcuts to switch between apps, windows, and tabs, change the layout of the app switcher on your screen, switch apps using a Spotlight-style search or menu bar button,. Ah, Command-Tab. Like the unexplored depths of the ocean, this keyboard shortcut’s murky secrets hide, waiting for a wise Mac user to explore its mysteries. Or perhaps it’s nothing at.
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this hint can be sped up by using:
tell application 'System Events'
instead of:
tell application 'Finder'
in both cases, especially for users who run Path Finder in place of the Finder. if Finder isn't running, the hide AppleScript has to open Finder to execute the application hiding, whereas System Events is always running.
tell application 'System Events'
instead of:
tell application 'Finder'
in both cases, especially for users who run Path Finder in place of the Finder. if Finder isn't running, the hide AppleScript has to open Finder to execute the application hiding, whereas System Events is always running.
Caution: My experience in my iBook 600 running Panther is that the System Events background app eats between 40 and 80% of my CPU cycles, rendering any other open applications unusably slow. The only fix for this is using Activity Monitor to quit System Events.
some additional notes, after playing with it a bit more...you can escape apps with spaces like 'microsoft word' like 'microsoft word' rather than having to quote it. (i.e. 'hide microsoft word'.)
also, for anyone who's interested, i've posted a somewhat rewritten version of the 'super_hide' script at http://mordeth.pankurokku.com/files/scripts/hide. basically, the main difference is that the name of the script by itself returns the script's syntax, and contains a variable named $FINDER. it is written for Path Finder users, but if you use Apple's Finder instead, you can either delete the line:
and replace all instances of '$FINDER' with 'Finder', or just change 'Path Finder' in the variable to 'Finder'.
Also see Nicholas Riley's appswitch utility.
See also 'quicksilver' (my current love: hmm, sad, isn't it...)
cmd-space w tab h return
and you're done. (cmd-space activates quicksilver, w selects word (see below), tab activates the 'action' palette, 'h' selects the 'hide' action from the list. No need to remember the name, or use quotes etc etc.
cmd-space w return
and your back (I'm assuming you've 'told' quicksilver that 'w' should point at Microsoft Word). Command line's nice, but this is *much* nicer. And my hands are on the keyboard at all times. Launchbar will do the same thing of course.
cmd-space w tab h return
and you're done. (cmd-space activates quicksilver, w selects word (see below), tab activates the 'action' palette, 'h' selects the 'hide' action from the list. No need to remember the name, or use quotes etc etc.
cmd-space w return
and your back (I'm assuming you've 'told' quicksilver that 'w' should point at Microsoft Word). Command line's nice, but this is *much* nicer. And my hands are on the keyboard at all times. Launchbar will do the same thing of course.
Seems like an awful lot of work when just right clicking on the app's Dock icon and selecting hide works just fine (and is faster)!
Can anyone explain why, even after compiling this script and reducing it to typing one command and one app name, that this is preferable over Panther's built-in app-switcher? Or just the long-click or Control-click in Dock as indicated above?
Command-Tab to bring up App-Switcher; Tab, Shift-Tab, or Arrow-key your way to the target app; H or Q to hide/quit the target app.
This feature in Panther, stolen from Michael Kamprath's original App Switcher (now Keyboard Maestro, still useful in Jaguar), is one of the more attractive value-added features in Panther.
About the only use I could foresee for my purposes for the above app is to use it on a remote machine to which I have SSH access, but not VNC. I love alternative ways to do things, really, and I'm not interested in arguing, only in learning where this is useful over what GUI/keyboard tools we already have.
Anyone?
Command-Tab to bring up App-Switcher; Tab, Shift-Tab, or Arrow-key your way to the target app; H or Q to hide/quit the target app.
This feature in Panther, stolen from Michael Kamprath's original App Switcher (now Keyboard Maestro, still useful in Jaguar), is one of the more attractive value-added features in Panther.
About the only use I could foresee for my purposes for the above app is to use it on a remote machine to which I have SSH access, but not VNC. I love alternative ways to do things, really, and I'm not interested in arguing, only in learning where this is useful over what GUI/keyboard tools we already have.
Anyone?
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Because some people like to type things. :-) And because you can do it from the Terminal.
This all started out as a question on a mailing list, then turned into a little proof-of-concerpt sripting exercise among several people. If you don't like it, that's fine. But it does show how you can combine shell scripting and AppleScript to do something that is not generally a Terminal operation.
This said, typing hide bbedit is much faster than Command-Tab, arrow, H.
This all started out as a question on a mailing list, then turned into a little proof-of-concerpt sripting exercise among several people. If you don't like it, that's fine. But it does show how you can combine shell scripting and AppleScript to do something that is not generally a Terminal operation.
This said, typing hide bbedit is much faster than Command-Tab, arrow, H.
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Hmmm.... I type ~110wpm, and I think I can still keystroke an app away faster -- not to mention right-clicks with Fruit Menu to hide/show this or that app; or the global (yes, Virginia, you can make it global in Panther!) Command-Option-H to hide everything but the current app.
I guess my twenty years of GUI is showing; I've been using MK's App Switcher for years, so it's just truly second nature, anymore.
But, I do enjoy watching how people integrate AS and shell actions; though, coming from the AS side of things in a big way, I tend to write AS that does things in Terminal moreso than the other way around.
Thanks for the reply; I appreciate the discussion. (:
Cheers
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I guess my twenty years of GUI is showing; I've been using MK's App Switcher for years, so it's just truly second nature, anymore.
But, I do enjoy watching how people integrate AS and shell actions; though, coming from the AS side of things in a big way, I tend to write AS that does things in Terminal moreso than the other way around.
Thanks for the reply; I appreciate the discussion. (:
Cheers
F