pipedowndjh

This bug has driven me nuts for years and I only recently figured out how easy it is to trigger.

1. Leave CMD + Space as Spotlight
2. Set Alt + Space for Alfred
3. Hit Cmd + Space and then hit Alt + Space
4. Enter in some random text and open as a google search in firefox or chrome
5. Try to type in the browser

Actual: You cannot type anywhere in your browser until you open a Safari window and type something into the URL bar

Expected: This focus issue wouldnt occur

I think this should be pretty easy to do in a workflow (he says after he spent the last three hours learning this stuff). All you need to do is create a workflow that has a hotkey and a script. Set the script to use osascript and enter in the following. As I don't have Airmail installed, you may have to change the name in the first line. The keycode below represents CMD+N. If that is not the hotkey for a new message in Airmail, just download Key Codes and type in the correct hotkey to get the numerical representation of the hotkey : http://manytricks.com/keycodes/

tell application "Airmail"
    activate
    tell application "System Events" to key code 45 using command down
end tell

I hope this helps.

Dan

Nevermind all. I actually figured this one out

I just needed to add an osascript that did the following within the convert path workflow linked above:

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    tell application "System Events" to key code 40 using command down
    tell application "System Events" to key code 9 using command down
    tell application "System Events" to key code 36
end tell

This opens Finder, hits Command K, hits Command V, and then hits Enter.

I found the key codes by using the KeyCodes app here: http://manytricks.com/keycodes/

I hope this helps others out.

All--

I have spent quite a bit of time over the past day or so trying to figure this one out without success.

The goal of this workflow is to do the following:

• Highlight a Windows server path like \\filesrv01\folder\folder2
• Convert it to smb://filesrv01/folder/folder2
• Open this folder location

In case it matters, the server to which I will be navigating does us AD authentication.

So far, I have gotten as far as using the following workflow to convert the path: http://cloud.dferg.us/pkSA

I had to change the script a bit to the following:

path = "{query}"
unc = ""

parts = path.split('\\')
parts.delete_at(0)
unc = parts.join('/')

print "smb:/#{unc}"

Now that I have the correct form of the path, I cannot figure out how to just simply launch this. I would really rather avoid having to activate finder, hit command K, and then paste in the path.

Some topics I have combed through on the forum are:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/180-connecting-to-remove-servers/

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1248-mount-network-shares-with-automatic-discovery/

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan