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
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.
$value will be automatically stringified. Returns an empty list.
km_get $varname
Gets the current value of the corrisponding Keyboard Maestro
variable. Returns an empty string if the variable does not exist.
km_delete $varname
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>
SEE ALSO
Mac::AppleScript, <http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>