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/