Tekl

The shortcut does not have an action for text grabbing. It gets it from the system using the services menu. The only actions are:

- Make Markdown from <Shortcut Input>

- Copy <Markdown from Rich Text> to clipboard

How can this be done? My use case is this: I select Text with hyperlinks in Mail, press a shortcut and then the clipboard contains the markdown representation.

As Alfred’s hotkeys strip the formatting from selected text, I can't pass it to the Shortcut. I see no difference to my first approach with a Hotkey and a Script.

Thanks for the help. I decided to use a simple Shortcut via the Services menu instead. Well, it breaks my workflow as I do most stuff with Alfred, but I don't need it so often.

Would it be possible to get the selection in macOS as Rich Text when using Hotkeys or Universal Actions? I would like to convert it to Markdown.

Currently, if I connect a file action with an “Open File” action, the action is performed for every file separately. So if my action wants to archive all selected files, it will create multiple archives for every single file. Well, the archive example is only used to demonstrate the issue. I know, there are better ways for archiving.

Hi,

does Alfred’s Markdown parser allow specifying the image size? I already tried these flavours:

![](icon.png#32x32)
![](icon.png | width=32)
![](icon.png =32x32)
![](icon.png){width:32}
![](icon.png){width=32}
![](icon.png){:width=32}
![](icon.png){style="width:32px"}
![](icon.png){:style="width:32px"}

Thanks for clarification.

Sorry, I probably shortened my question too much. My question is. does Alfred itself check regularly if updates are available? I do know, how to install available updates. But I don't know if I have to click on "Alfred Gallery » Check for Workflow Updates" regularly.

Do have to call this command manually, or does Alfred run this with its normal update check?

Thanks for the tip with the tmp folder. Great idea.

Between the calls, I'm loading a random image from Unsplash. It replaces the old image, so I have not to deal with different filenames and don't need to do housekeeping (deleting the old picture).

When I use "Change Wallpaper" with the same path as in a previous call, the desktop picture does not change. It seems that it does not detect that the file has changed. Maybe this can be fixed, so no workaround is needed. Currently, I use "Change Wallpaper at Random" before "Change Wallpaper"

I'm running Automation Tasks 2023.2 in macOS 13.4 and Alfred 5.1.1

The DevTools were already installed, I reinstalled them with the download from Apples Website (Command_Line_Tools_for_Xcode_15_beta.dmg).

The output didn't change:

% xcode-select --print-path
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Well, after two reboots it seems to work now. Strange.

Yes, I'm on Apple Silicon. I've installed Homebrew with the command from brew.sh as it was suggested by Alfred.

% /opt/homebrew/bin/brew --version
Homebrew 4.0.23

When I launch the Dependency Manager, it always asks me to install Homebrew manually. I already did this. In the first step, I wanted Alfred to install Homebrew for me, but it failed. Now it always shows `Homebrew install failed: please install manually from https://brew.sh/`.

My workflows using Homebrew and Tools are running fine, but it would be great to get the Dependency Manager working again.

I uninstalled Homebrew this morning for some tests. Before this, Alfred worked well. I'm running macOS 14 first Dev beta on Apple Silicon. Maybe that's causing the problem.

How does Alfred try to detect if Homebrew is installed?

1 hour ago, Stephen_C said:

A simple workflow that allows volume control of Roon from Alfred without bringing the Roon app to the front would be of interest, I'm sure, to some of us. 😉

 

Stephen

Here's my first version:

https://tekl.de/downloads/alfred-workflows/Volume Control for Roon.alfredworkflow

54 minutes ago, vitor said:

 

Unless you compile it to a binary.

 

Having the Command Line Tools isn’t an issue, though.

Ah, good idea. But then changing scripts is more complicated and compiling Is not enough. I have to codesign and notarize it. And I don't know how to compile universal binaries. Sorry, I'm no developer, I don't want it complicated. 😁 It seems that a corresponding makefile will be bigger than the simple swift script. 

Well, this swift script seems to work (it sends Cmd+Up to Roon), but it only works when the Command Line Tools are installed.

#!/usr/bin/env swift
import Cocoa

func sendShortcutToProcess(bundleIdentifier: String, keyCode: CGKeyCode, modifierFlags: CGEventFlags) {
    if let targetProcess = NSRunningApplication.runningApplications(withBundleIdentifier: bundleIdentifier).first {
        let pid = targetProcess.processIdentifier
        guard let eventSource = CGEventSource(stateID: .hidSystemState) else {
            print("Failed to create event source")
            return
        }
        
        let keyDownEvent = CGEvent(keyboardEventSource: eventSource, virtualKey: keyCode, keyDown: true)!
        keyDownEvent.flags = modifierFlags
        keyDownEvent.postToPid(pid)
        
        let keyUpEvent = CGEvent(keyboardEventSource: eventSource, virtualKey: keyCode, keyDown: false)!
        keyUpEvent.flags = modifierFlags
        keyUpEvent.postToPid(pid)
    }
}

// Usage: Call the function with the desired bundle identifier, key code, and modifier flags
sendShortcutToProcess(bundleIdentifier: "com.roon.Roon", keyCode: 126, modifierFlags: .maskCommand)

I'm also looking for a way to send keys to processes like BetterTouchTool can do. Using System Events in AppleScript does need the process to be frontmost. Maybe someone knows how to use AppleScriptObjC to solve this? Maybe something using CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent.

Hi,

Would it be possible to read, for example, the content of the second clipboard history item from AppleScript or any other scripting language? The script isn't running in Alfred, but outside in Typinator.

I would like to split a text at every tab character and then paste every splitted item into the frontmost app with a following Key Combo. I can do it with a long list of clipboard actions to paste {var:split1}, {var:split2} and so on. It's okay with limited number of items. But I want it to be more flexible, so it works with every amount of tab chars in the text. For this, I need to connect the last "Arg and Vars" again with the first condition which checks, if there is text left for processing. Alfred seems not to allow this loop. Have I missed a loop feature or does Alfred actively block loop creation?

Thanks for the explanation. I've missed the specific cache folder, I always used app support. 🤦

For example: a web search does not need to store (and delete) images files on disk just for viewing them as thumbnails. 

Okay, thanks for your answer. A way to include images in the JSON output would be great.

Hi there,

is it possible to use embedded (generated) file data for the icons of a script filter instead of referring to files? Something like this:

"icon": {
	"path": "data:image/png;base64,XYZ="
}

And which file types are allowed? Only Bitmap or even vector like SVG or PDF?

Thanks in advance