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1. endymion
   Member

   Here's a list of commands that I have written for Firefox. None of these commands use the Firefox menus, because MacSpeech will instantly crash Firefox if you try to make a command that uses a Firefox menu item. These commands are simply the Firefox keyboard shortcuts, translated into AppleScript, and wired into MacSpeech.

   The first command is the most important: "find link". That command will activate a search bar at the bottom of Firefox that will allow you to search within the text of the links on the page. If there is a link on the page that says "news" and you want to click on it, then say "find link", "no space", "news", "press okay". If MacSpeech supported a "no space" AppleScript action, then it would not be necessary for us to say "no space". I have requested that new action as a feature request from MacSpeech. I also experimented with a "follow link" command that would have put MacSpeech back into command mode after following a link, but MacSpeech currently does not respond to the AppleScript event "set microphone to command", so that's not possible. It responds to "set microphone to dictation" but as far as I can tell MacSpeech doesn't support going back to command mode using AppleScript, even though command, dictation and speech modes are all listed in the MacSpeech AppleScript command dictionary.

   Note that my commands differ from the built-in commands in that the built-in commands use many different verbs. "Select previous tab" for Safari, "Jump back", "Switch to Space One", "Move Page Up", etc. I don't want to have to pause to remember which verb to use when I'm trying to accomplish some task because that's distracting. I standardized all of my movement commands to use the verb "Move", so that I don't have to think about it. I use "Move Page Up", "Move Back", "Move Tab Left", "Move To Space One", and I never have to think about what verb to use.

   Command: Find Link
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "'"
   end tell
   tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
   	set microphone to dictation
   end tell

   Command: Find Text
   Context: Firefox
   Desription: Same as "Find Link" but searches through all text.
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "/"
   end tell
   tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
   	set microphone to dictation
   end tell

   Command: Do A Google Search
   Context: Firefox
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "f" using {option down, command down}
   end tell
   tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
   	set microphone to dictation
   end tell

   Command: Go To Location
   Context: Firefox
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "l" using {command down}
   end tell
   tell application "MacSpeech Dictate"
   	set microphone to dictation
   end tell

   Command: Move Back
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Description: The "back" button.
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "[" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move Forward
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "]" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Reload This Page
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "r" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Force Reload This Page
   Description: Most people probably don't need this command but I'm a web developer...
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "r" using {shift down, command down}
   end tell

   Command: Stop Loading
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "." using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Zoom In
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "+" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Zoom Out
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "-" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Zoom Reset
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "0" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Make A New Tab
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "t" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Close This Tab
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "w" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move Tab Left
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "{" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move Tab Right
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "}" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab One
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "1" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Two
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "2" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Three
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "3" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Four
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "4" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Five
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "5" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Six
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "6" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Seven
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "7" using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Tab Eight
   Context: Firefox
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	keystroke "8" using {command down}
   end tell

   I have these commands set up in the global context, but I use them a lot with Firefox:

   Command: Move Page Down
   Context: Global
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	key code 121
   end tell

   Command: Move Page Up
   Context: Global
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	key code 116
   end tell

   Command: Move To Bottom
   Context: Global
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	key code 125 using {command down}
   end tell

   Command: Move To Top
   Context: Global
   Type: AppleScript
   Source:
   

   tell application "System Events"
   	key code 126 using {command down}
   end tell

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. cedar
   Member

   I very much want to use your helpful scripts. I installed the one for Find Link and that works fine. Then I installed the rest and none of them are working. For some reason, even though I carefully pasted the different scripts in for each command, they all end up saying, in all kinds of psychedelic colors:

   set _dictateApp to (name of current application)
   tell application _dictateApp
   set bundleID to (bundle identifier of current context)
   end tell
   set _currentAppName to short name of (info for (path to application id bundleID as alias))

   What is going on here?

   Thanks in advance…

   Posted 2 months ago #

3. cedar
   Member

   Since I couldn't make the scripts work, I created a bunch of menu commands. They work, but they are extremely slow.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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