the script works sort of. My status menu says charged but the script says battery 98 percent. On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Could somebody talk me through doing this off list? I hate to clog the list > but have never done this and would like to. > > Marlaina > > 1guide...@gmail.com > On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Hai Nguyen wrote: > > Good afternoon everyone, > Rather than going through all of the status menus just to find one small > piece of information, in this case, the battery status, I've done the > following. > Please compile the following Apple script and associate it with a keyboard > commander shortcut. > > Happy Holidays to all and be safe out there. > > > --Author Hai Nguyen Ly November 28, 2010 > (* > This Apple script will querie for the battery status and speak the output. > This script works best when associated with a keyboard shortcut and used in > conjunction with VoiceOver. > *) > on isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript() > set isRunning to true > > -- is AppleScript enabled on VoiceOver -- > tell application "VoiceOver" > try > set x to bounds of vo cursor > on error > set isRunning to false > end try > end tell > return isRunning > end isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript > > set maxCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep \"\\\"MaxCapacity\\\" > = \"" > set maxLevel to the last word of maxCapacity > set curCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep > \"\\\"CurrentCapacity\\\" = \"" > set curLevel to the last word of curCapacity > set battPct to round (100 * curLevel / maxLevel) > set output to "Battery " & battPct & "%" > if isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript() then > tell application "VoiceOver" > output "Battery " & battPct & "%" > end tell > else > say "Battery " & battPct & "%" > end if > > Regards: > Hai > On Dec 23, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > >> Pressing VO Shift M twice brings yo to the status menu. read it like the >> menu bar below it; arrow over until you hear the battery status, then down >> arrow to check out more battery status and power saver options, etc. >> >> >> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> • My home page: >> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com Website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com podcast mobile http://marrie.podbean.com/mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
