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#1
March 9th, 2007, 11:01 AM
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| Macros for Macs Hi, I am new to the community. I have a mac and I want to know if there is a program out there similar to macro express for windows. I know that Automator has a lot of the similar functions, but I am looking for something which I can program "hotkeys" to insert text into documents. I don't think I can do this with Automater and was wondering if anyone could suggest a program. Thanks  |
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#2
March 9th, 2007, 11:08 AM
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| I use Butler for this task. It does a dozen or so different things (all of them very useful), so it might be a little confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it I think you'll find it indispensable. It's free, too. You might also want to look at QuicKeys. It's expensive, but it's an old and powerful macro app.
__________________ Mac mini — 1.25GHz G4, 1GB RAM — OS 10.5.2 I'm now a four-browser man. How on earth did this happen?! Useful programs: PithHelmet, Butler, ffmpegX, VLC, Perian, Tofu, Wcalc |
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#3
March 10th, 2007, 06:17 PM
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| I use Key Xing, http://www.lumacode.com/keyxing/ and AppleScript.
__________________ MacBook Pro + Mac mini | Newton 2000 | @Work : Dell D620 & 2x20" + a lot of Macs | Workstation, VC & Fusion Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ~ Samuel Clemens | Rants | Photos |
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#4
March 10th, 2007, 07:03 PM
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| If you're talking about "snippets" to insert, so if you e.g. writes "ddate" it inserts the current date, then TextExpander is pretty neat |
