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More KeyQuencer Sample Macros
by Judy Engelsberg <[e-mail]>

• Dragging a floppy disk to the trash:

1. I have made a macro called WhereIsClick. It has a one-line script: WhereIsClick, that I created by double-clicking on the extension at the bottom of the extensions list.
2. I run WhereIsClick which gives me a cross-hair and I click in the center of my floppy disk icon. It's the second icon at the top right of my finder. I'm using a 14" color monitor. Several numbers are displayed. I record 600,120 for the screen location of the icon. I repeat this process and click on my trash icon, which I have in its traditional location. I record 600,440 for its screen location.
3. Create a new extension called Eject Floppy and give it a key command. Double-click on the drag extension to put that into your macro script. Double-click on "from #h #v" from the extension submenu and replace "#h #v with 600 120. Double-click on "to #h #v" and replace "#h #v" with 600 440. So the final macro script looks like:

Drag from 600 120 to 600 440

Save your macro by choosing OK. Try it!

• Better Trash Macro

1. Use WhereIsClick to find the screen coordinates for the trash can and write them down somewhere.
2. Create a new macro. Call it TrashIt and give it a key.
3. Scroll to the "Drag" extension and double-click on it to start the script. (Take a moment to study the available parameters for the drag command.)
4. Double-click on "from mouse", and "to h# v#" subcommands and substitute your horizontal and vertical coordinates obtained from WhereIsClick.
5. There is no 5. That's all there is to it! Save the macro. This macro is great for lazy people like me, who like having a trash can around, but don't like to take the effort to throw things in it. Just place the cursor over an item you no longer want, or shift-click to select multiple items. Make sure that the mouse if over at least one of those selected items and activate the macro. Those documents are history! Oh! I almost forgot. It works for disks too.

• Open a Control Panel

Let's save some more mouse mileage. This is for the people who like to change their highlight and window color..
1. Create a new macro, and name it Open Color Panel (or whatever you prefer) and give it a key.
2. Start by switching to the Finder, so make SwitchApp "Finder" the first line of the macro.
3. Find the Open extension and double-click on it to start the second line of the macro. (Notice how many different things you can open by browsing through the Open subcommands.)
4. Double-click on the panels subcommand.
5. Double-click on the "Disk:folder::file" subcommand, and replace the text with 'Color'. The entire macro is:

SwitchApp "Finder"
Open panels "Color"

• Print One Page

I suspect that many of you have a favorite text editor or word processor that you often print from. I know I often find myself wanting to print only the first page. I don't want to print succeeding pages, and I don't want to print any empty pages that I might have. If this scenario applies to you, then this will save you some time. This menu should work with your favorite text processor, although you may have to modify it slightly. For the example's sake we'll use SimpleText.

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