MacOS – Script OSX Color Picker to choose a specific color and exit

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Looking for a way to AppleScript the native (?) OSX Color Picker displayed in Evernote so that I can set a specific color and exit.

Use case: Would like to create scripts to mark selected text red, green, and black. I will use Automator or tool like Fastscripts or Keyboard Maestro to trigger these scripts via hotkeys. My goal is to quickly re-color selected text without having to use the mouse.

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You can use Keyboard Maestro's mouse actions to find an image on the screen (such as the colour wheel), then a defined pixel coordinate within the found image to click on. This will therefore select the same colour regardless of where the window is located.

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Absolutely. Check out the DigitalColor Meter tool in your Utilities folder. It does exactly what you want.

How to successively trigger an AppleScript very quickly

Adding > /dev/null 2>&1 & to the end of the do shell script command should work. This redirects the stdout and stderr of the do shell script command to /dev/null and runs the shell script in the background, meaning that AppleScript no longer needs to wait for the command to return stdout or stderr before the AppleScript script can finish. That means that it finishes and can be run again much more quickly.

You also shouldn't need the try handler at the beginning. The following modified script should work:

set currentVolume to output volume of (get volume settings)
set volume output volume (currentVolume + 2)
-- play volume changing sound at new volume
do shell script "afplay /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/volume.aiff > /dev/null 2>&1 &"

I got this tip from MacScripter (an excellent resource for AppleScripting) in a post about running multiple instances of a shell script.

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