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This is a simple input method performing ROT13 on the English output: https://github.com/jakwings/FooIME

He Tyler,

Thanks for the examples. I was working on using a WebView but unfortunately I stumbled upon the same problem as described in https://github.com/tylergaw/js-osx-app-examples/blob/master/docs/webview-not-rendering-html.md

I was wondering whether there was any news / response regarding this issue #crossingfingers

Greets,
Paul.

They all get

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'NSGetSizeAndAlignment(): unsupported type encoding spec 'G' at 'GPoint}"size"{CGSize}}' in '{CGPoint}"size"{CGSize}}''

Which seems to happen before many $.NSSomething calls, but certainly $.NSWindow.alloc...

Wondering:

a) can others replicate this?
b) ideas on the best way forward? Looks like Apple broke it, but was it intentional? How might we make them aware this was really useful.

your examples very awesome
how can i get NSMatrix selected item... Item.tag or item.index for example

Hi, thanks for your work on documenting how to build JavaScript for Automation apps. Your blogpost and examples are by far the best resources I've found so far.

I'm wondering if you know of any way to bind to keystroke events using JS for Automation? Ideally I'd like to respond to global keyboard events (ie. when the app is not focused), but I'm not sure if that's possible. Through searching around, it seems like an old Carbon API called RegisterEventHotKey is the way most OS X apps do this. It looks like you can import and use these APIs, my WIP attempt looks something like:

ObjC.import("Cocoa")
ObjC.import("Carbon")
var hotkeyHandler = function(evt) { $.NSLog('hello from handler') }
var evtType = { eventClass: $.kEventClassKeyboard, eventKind: $.kEventHotKeyPressed }
var keyCodeForV = 9

$.InstallEventHandler($.GetApplicationEventTarget(), hotkeyHandler, 1, evtType, {}, null)
s = $.RegisterEventHotKey(keyCodeForV, ($.controlKey | $.cmdKey), {id: 1, signature: 'asdf'}, $.GetApplicationEventTarget(), 0, {});

This doesn't work, but running each of the Carbon functions/variables through console.log shows that they are available and ready to use. The arguments that are empty object literals are the ones I'm unclear about.

The following links look useful for figuring this out, and looking at the Carbon header file at /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Headers/Events.h has also been helpful:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8201338/how-to-implement-shortcut-key-input-in-mac-cocoa-app
http://dbachrach.com/blog/2005/11/program-global-hotkeys-in-cocoa-easily/
http://snippets.aktagon.com/snippets/361-registering-global-hot-keys-with-cocoa-and-objective-c

Not sure if an issue is the best way to ask this, but thought it might be useful to others as well if it was documented here. Any pointers or tips would be appreciated!