Using QS trigger to type a text and other.

[Adriano Borgobello]

Is it possible to configure a QS trigger to type a text using a Keyboard trigger? Things that I type commonly like even some passwords? With Spark (excuse me talking about it, but I'm trying to replace it, keeping most of the functions I'm used to... when think I recovered all possibile, I'll look what's new), I configured many hotkey keystroke to type some text, in particular many most used passwords.

Spark let me even define general and application customised triggers. Application customised triggers did activate only inside the application for which the was created, so I could have the same keystroke to type different text in different application.

Could this be done in some way using QS?

[Patrick Robertson]

This is certainly possible, try setting up a trigger for ’some text’ and then use the action ’Type Text’.

You can set triggers to only work in certain apps using the ’Scope’ options. Open the sidebar for a trigger, then change the applications:

Note: Please note, however, that the contents of triggers are saved as plain text on your computer, and could be visible by anybody who has access to your computer. As such it may not be the most secure option to store passwords in Triggers. A password manager might be more appropriate for this.

Good luck!

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[Adriano Borgobello]

I'm aware that this could seem not much secure. But no others has access to my account, few at the computer itself and more important... I use the trick only for passwords that I guess don't interest someone other than me. Thanks for your tip. :-)

[Adriano Borgobello]

But it doesn't work as aspected... typing the keystroke I used above, I got a strange behaviour: first a finder window comes in foreground, then I got moment of gui freez, and than it starts to type the text continuously for about a minute (say some hundred times), in every document I bring in foreground. I tried changing keystroke, but with some it doesn't work at all, with others it's the same I described above. The unique key I found to work, are plain function keys showed as Fn-F1, Fn-F2, etc... Adding a modifier like command key, make it not to work.

[Patrick Robertson]

I think this is because you may still be holding down some keys like ⌘ or ⇧ as the typing is happening, which would trigger other commands. If you set the trigger to work ‘on release’, and make sure to release all keys quickly, it should work.

However, instead of ’Type Text’ you could try using the ‘Paste’ action. The disadvantage of this though is that it may not work for all password fields, and would add the password to your clipboard.

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[Adriano Borgobello]

Exactly for this, I asked to "type text" and not to paste it ;-)

In any case, I tried to use ‘on release’, delay options and different keystrokes... but doesn't seem to be reliable. Only using single function key seems to work as aspected. Definitely not enough to replace all my Spark kaystrokes. And plain function key are needed for other things. Maybe I must learn to live without them... :-(

[Patrick Robertson]

I view the fact that the ‘on release’ option doesn’t wait until *all* keys are released, and that type text picks up current keyboard modifiers when typing as a bug.

Can you please open an issue at github.com/quicksilver/quicksilver/issues and we will look into this.

Thanks

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[Adriano Borgobello]

I started to open the issue, but I'm unable to fill all required field. Things like "Steps to reproduce" and "Expected behavior". At last, I'm not sure that the behaviour could be defined a issue, while it won't affect triggers like launching applications. It's true that application launches before all keys was released, but it isn't a problem. Launching application works just fine with the same keystroke that won't work to type text.

[Patrick Robertson]

No problem,

I identified the issue and have pushed a fix. You can expect this to be fixed in the next version of Quicksilver :)

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