[TimmyDee51]

Does any one know if there is a way to create AppleScripts that will increase and decrease the volume incrementally. I have an old keyboard for my iMac and like the size but wouldn't mind having the new volume feature of the new keyboards. If possible, I would write the scripts and then bind them to the function keys. I would like there to be only two scripts and not one for every major volume setting.

Requires Jon's Commands OSAX.

Note: The small integer volume control pre-OS9.1 used to be 0-7. Now with OS9.1 it appears to be 0-8... can anyone else confirm this?

To increase the volume by increments of 1:

tell application "Finder"
set myVol to sound volume --Jon's Commands
if myVol is less than or equal to 7 then
set sound volume to myVol + 1
end if
end tell


To decrease the volume by increments of 1:

tell application "Finder"
set myVol to sound volume --Jon's Commands
if myVol is greater than or equal to 1 then
set sound volume to myVol - 1
end if
end tell

Update: I'm not sure how long Sound Scripting (OS9.1) has been a MAC OS scripting addition but you can set the volume without having Jon's Commands. The scripts for the most part are the same.

To increase the volume by increments of 1:

tell application "Sound Scripting"
set myVol to sound volume
if myVol is less than or equal to 7 then
set sound volume to myVol + 1
end if
end tell

tell application "Sound Scripting" to quit


To decrease the volume by increments of 1:

tell application "Sound Scripting"
set myVol to sound volume
if myVol is greater than or equal to 1 then
set sound volume to myVol - 1
end if
end tell

tell application "Sound Scripting" to quit

[TimmyDee51]

Wow! Thanks for the advice and the scripts. I've tried them both out and they work great!

[DocWest]

Hey, great scripts RGS.

And if you want to make it beep so you know how loud it is:
after the last line, just put in beep. like this:

tell application "Sound Scripting" to quit
beep

It's not really needed, but some people like to know how loud they are making it. Just a personal preference for some people.

[Paul Crawford]

Hi all,

Just wanted to note that, in addition to the excellent advice given by RGS above, there's yet another older 'FadeAway' scripting addition (OSAX) which apparently can also perform this task (and can even separately set the individual left/right channel levels). [See the earlier related Sound volumes thread in this Forum; note that its link to the 'FadeAway' OSAX is old, and should now instead be FadeAway.]

Regards,

--Paul