newbie confusion: how to run my new Lua script on demand

[Joel D Canfield]

Using Hammerspoon to automate apps which aren't exposed to AppleScript (Affinity Photo, in this case.)

Wrote the Lua to open a new Photo document* which works as expected in the Hammerspoon console. Is this the only way to run this, open Hammerspoon and put the code there? I assume I'm missing something obvious.

Hoping for a keyboard shortcut to run this so I can, from anywhere on my Mac, fire up Photo with a new document.

joel

*Affinity apps get confused by Mac dual monitor setups and open new documents on the non-primary monitor, BEHIND all the dialog boxes. So upon creating a new document, the first thing I do, multiple times a day, is use my existing keyboard shortcut from, erm, Karabiner or something else I've forgotten because it's late and I'm tired, and move the document to the correct monitor. My Lua/Hammerspoon script makes this all happen automagically.

[Chris Jones]

Hey

If you click on the Hammerspoon menubar icon there is an "Open Config" item, which will load a text editor with the contents of ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua

Anything you place in that file will be executed by Hammerspoon when it launches, so you could place your window manipulating Lua into a function and then attach that to a hotkey with hs.hotkey.bind() (http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.hotkey.html#bind)

Cheers,

Chris

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Cheers,

Chris

[Joel D Canfield]

bingo. was working on a hotkey binding but my brain wouldn't serve up the concept of a function to run with that hotkey. even sussed the lack of a sleep/wait function (oh, Lua . . . ) and got that sorted.

thanks ever so much.