akweteco01: Cycle between bases in Programming Calculator mode

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Cycle between bases in Programming Calculator mode

I use the Programming mode in Calculator.app and often find myself moving to the mouse to switch between octal, hex, and decimal modes. I wrote the two following Applescripts to cycle forward and backward between bases and use Butler to bind them to Command+D and Command+Shift+D.

Cycle forwards:

 tell application "System Events"   tell application process "Calculator"     repeat with i from 1 to 3       if the value of radio button i of radio group 1 of group 2 of window "Calculator" is 1 then         click radio button ((i mod 3) + 1) of radio group 1 of group 2 of window "Calculator"         exit repeat       end if     end repeat   end tell end tell

Cycle backwards: ...