Comments on post “Flic for Mac”
Scott Winterroth
@swinterroth · Co-Founder at ContentAcademy.com
Can you use the button to execute keyboard shortcut commands?
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Anton Meier
@antomeie · Engineer
@swinterroth Not yet, but that is a feature that I hope we will be able to add in the near future.
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Scott Winterroth
@swinterroth · Co-Founder at ContentAcademy.com
@antomeie I use a screencasting program and I would love to have a simple button to start, stop and pause the recording. Since the program uses shortcut commands, it would be something I figured could be programmed. I have an example of something similar if you're interested in more info.
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Ed Holloway
@edholloway · AutomatedSky, MaidBooks, Field2Base
@antomeie @swinterroth +1 for this. Would expand the mac functionality quite a bit if this were there
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Maarten den Braber
@mdbraber · Digital health strategist
@edholloway @antomeie @swinterroth you can actually use it to execute almost anything on your Mac if you use Keyboard Maestro. KM has a built-in webserver that you can call with the Flic webrequest hooks. Works great!
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Lee Fuhr
@cozysd · Founder & Creative Director, Cozy
@mdbraber @edholloway @antomeie @swinterroth Keyboard Maestro is a friggin' treasure trove. Making functionality like what you listed above (and, frankly, a lot of KM's abilities) much more user-friendly would be killer.
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Anton Meier
@antomeie · Engineer
@cozysd @mdbraber @edholloway @swinterroth Actually I will throw in a little tease here and say that I actually already implemented a Keyboard Maestro action a few weeks ago that can trigger macros directly. Unfortunately I had to remove it on release since it is conflicting a bit with Apple's Sandboxing requirements for apps. The reason for why we want to conform to their requirements is because we want to keep the option open to move it over to an App Store distribution in the future. Anyhow, I am now seriously thinking about making a plugin system for the Flic app that would allow for actions to be added manually by the user after the installation and thus not affecting the sandbox. The cool thing with that would of course also be that ppl could create their own actions... No timelite yet though.
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Scott Winterroth
@swinterroth · Co-Founder at ContentAcademy.com
@antomeie The Belkin powermate has a pretty cool shortcut button maker program.
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Maarten den Braber
@mdbraber · Digital health strategist
@antomeie @cozysd @edholloway @swinterroth Interesting :-) But the simplest / easiest form would be to just allow custom (Apple) scripts to execute. That could then execute any other type of action. Would that be outside of Apple sandboxing?
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Anton Meier
@antomeie · Engineer
@mdbraber Well the idea is that a Sandboxed app, for security reasons, should only be able to execute files that are included within the apps own bundle (shipped with the app). This means that arbitrary AppleScripts can not be executed since they would have the capability to access other resources in the system and potentially do harmful stuff. There are a few exceptions to this where, for example, a sandboxed app can control other sandboxed apps (like how I do it with Spotify and Keynote), but this is not the case with KM since it is not a sandboxed app. One other exception is that an app is allowed to execute files where the user explicitly has given the app execute permissions, which is why a plugin would work in this case. A plugin could of course consist of a script of some sort, so anything could be done..
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