[smic]

This is kinda a modin' question...
I have painted and made my keyboard look awsome, but now with the new keyboard I am jelous about the eject disk and volume up/down keys. So my question is, is there apple scripts or something else that i can use to mimic those keys on my keyboard?????

[RWoelk]

You might want to look into Quickkeys 5.0. $100.00 street. I am unsure if a macro for what you are attempting is possible here, ( I have never used it) but many people swear by this program. www.cesoft.com.

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[smic]

nope
it doesnt seem to work for that
sucks
any other ideas??
i dont want to get a new keyboard

[TimmyDee51]

Although you may not be able to replicate the media eject key, you should be able to duplicate the volume up/volume down keys. Write AppleScripts for different volume settings (as many as you want) and then make keyboard shortcuts for those scripts. You will have more than one key for volume, but it'll be as close as you can get without a new keyboard.

you could create a few small applescripts to do the sound up/down, mute, and put away all removable disks.
the following sound scripts require jon's commands osax, and the disk script requires akua sweets osax. both are highly useful for many different tasks.

sound up

Code:
set currentvolume to sound volume
set sound volume to (currentvolume + 1)
beep

sound down

Code:
set currentvolume to sound volume
set sound volume to (currentvolume - 1)
beep

mute/unmute

Code:
if (sound volume) > 0 then
     set sound volume to 0
else if (sound volume) = 0 then
     set sound volume to 1
     beep
end if

eject disks

Code:
set disklist to (list disks)
repeat with thedisk in disklist
     if (vol removable) of (the volume info for thedisk) is true then
          expel thedisk
     end if
end repeat

yeesh, formatting that code took a while :-)

anyways, after you make the scripts and save them as programs, you can bind them to the function-keys using the keyboard control panel

hope that helps,
ster

[SpeedRacer]

Ya you can definitely get *all* of the functionality of the new Apple keyboards (sound up/down/mute and media eject) via AppleScript *as well as*...

Audio CD play, stop, rewind, fast-forward functionality by downloading the Scripting Addition "AudioCDgh" and creating some really basic Applescripts.

I have all of these bound to my older keyboard and they work great. And actually since the media eject is via AppleScript, it actually works better than the one provided in the newer models which seems not to work when inside of other programs (DVD player).

Speed

[smic]

Well thanks a bunch,
but one problem, I can't get the script for ejecting the disc to work, and silly me has never really used applescript.....so can someone help with it...please
Other then that it works awsome, now to work on my trackball