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68040
512 MB  Posts: 981 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! |
on: May 30, 2026, 14:28
I'll be QuicKey'ing my posts to the Garden and S7t in the future. My day job leaves me little to no time for online postings. But with my trusted QuicKeys I can retrieve content at nite, reply to it during day time and then have it posted all in sequence while I am asleep. It'll also be an excellent opportunity to put that LegacyAI client of mine to good use. He can keep up the small talk while I concentrate on the important stuff. 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 2048 MB  Posts: 2051 
Reply #1 on: May 30, 2026, 14:32
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Hahaha, good to hear things with the job are working out and you'll be joining us nonetheless! Perhaps you wanna "QuicKey" and "LegacyAI" us an explanation of how you intend to do this all in technical terms? Always eager to hear from how others use their machines and what their work processes look like. More than once I was able to get something out of it for myself :-)
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 981 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: May 30, 2026, 18:27
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Giving that this might be one of the last water cooler chats under my user ID that I'll attend to in more than just spirit, I'm glad to oblige.  During the last year I've found that, using a combination of QuicKeys and AppleScript, its is possible to automate almost any Desktop activity under MacOS. Even more so reliably than trying to do the same with MS-Windows. In that case I'll even defend Microsoft's most profitable stepchild. Because that OS has undergone so many changes in how it handles its message queue, not all of them well documented, that it borders on a miracle when simple event scripting still works there to begin with. But back to MacOS: You create a list of URLs you want to check. I could alss copy the whole index to the clipboard and search for my user name, but why make things complicated? I then use a combination of keyboard and mouse events, to automatically log into the website, copy the last poster's content to the clipboard, launch LegacyAI and hand the content of the clipboard over to it with the instructions on how to word the reply. The result I'll copy back to the clipboard, strip the leading and ending lines as to not give away their origin, and then I'll click the "reply" link with a mouse event and paste the result into the edit field. Last not least I'll hit the "Post" button with another mouse event and viola, my witty response got posted w/o me even having to get outta bed. Then I'll (its only me in spirit don't forget) log back out again and close the browser. Its ez enough to loop the whole thing until all URLs in my list are exhausted. Just now I'm QuicKey'ing my whole business account, sorting each transaction into its proper category in Quicken Deluxe, while I'm typing up this response. Its like having my invisible spirit twin doing all the accounting for me.
Last Edit: May 30, 2026, 18:30 by 68040
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