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| - | Any active macro can be executed via AppleScript request to the Keyboard Maestro Engine. Keyboard Maestro includes a menu at the bottom of the trigger section showing example code to execute the macro by script in a variety of languages (although all variations break down to AppleScript requests, however that is done within the language). For example: | + | Any active macro can be triggered via AppleScript request to the Keyboard Maestro Engine. Keyboard Maestro includes a menu at the bottom of the trigger section showing example code to execute the macro by script in a variety of languages (although all variations break down to AppleScript requests, however that is done within the language, usually by using the *osascript* tool). For example: |
| -- ignoring application responses | -- ignoring application responses | ||
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| end tell | end tell | ||
| -- end ignoring | -- end ignoring | ||
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| + | or | ||
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| + | osascript -e 'tell app "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to do script "My Example Macro"' | ||
| As can be seen, you can execute the macro by name, or more specifically based on the UID of the macro. | As can be seen, you can execute the macro by name, or more specifically based on the UID of the macro. | ||
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| You can pass a parameter to the macro by adding *with parameter "Whatever"* to the *do script* command. The parameter is available to the macro as the [[token:TriggerValue|%TriggerValue% text token]] (v7.0+). | You can pass a parameter to the macro by adding *with parameter "Whatever"* to the *do script* command. The parameter is available to the macro as the [[token:TriggerValue|%TriggerValue% text token]] (v7.0+). | ||
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| + | ===== See Also ===== | ||
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| + | === Triggers === | ||
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| + | * [[URL|URL]] trigger | ||
| + | * [[Trigger File|Trigger File]] | ||
| + | * [[/Triggers|All Triggers]] | ||
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