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Keyboard Shortcut for Text Color

tedg
in Interface Design Discussions

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What I want to do is manually select a word or two and hit a keyboard shortcut that turns the text color to red.

I have (on my Mac) Keyboard Maestro, which can select a menu and/or do all sorts of UI tasks. But to change to red you have to select a swatch from a palette.

I think the solution will be to make a script that does something similar to TextStyleAdd (red). Then I can just select that script from the script menu.

But the script creation window seems to allow only a few commands, none of them related to text.

Can I do this?

the script creation window seems to allow only a few commands, none of them related to text.

That is correct; you need to use a calculation in your script, for example:

Insert Calculated Result [ TextColor ( Middle ( Get ( ActiveFieldContents ) ; Get ( ActiveSelectionstart ) ; Get ( ActiveSelectionSize ) ) ; RGB ( 200 ; 0 ; 0 ) ) ]

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Yes, the Insert Calculated Results command is what I was missing.

Trying your example, it turns the entire field red! All I want to do is select a couple words and have the script turn those words red.

Thanks.

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Duh. I had the select all checkbox checked. Many, many thanks.

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