kasper
Sending events to Phoenix
I would like to tirgger Phoenix events via and API / library.
This way I can trigger Phoenix actions via "Alfred" or some other tool instead of relying on keyboard shortcuts. ( I am bad at remembering).
Is this a valid feature request or out of scope for this project ? I can look into an implementation if there is consensus.
If there’s a simple way of integrating this to the current Event API, then perhaps. For example by using NSDistributedNotificationCenter. (I personally haven’t used launchers, so I’m not that familiar how they interoperate between apps.) I would rather not add too much complexity to keep the project simple.
I've thought about the same thing, for example changing phoenix layouts and behaviour based on other system events than what is available, or generally passing any information to phoenix. This could be emulated somewhat through tasks (by polling) though.
Adding support for new system events is certainly possibly, if there’s a clear use case for it.
If anyone else is looking for a cheeky solution i have right now. Just set your phoenix script up with a hotkey, and then trigger the hotkey via osascript in the terminal
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "l" using {command down, option down}'
can turn that into a bash alias if your want it even easier by adding this to your .zshrc or .bashrc
alias triggerPhoenixHotkey='osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"l\" using {command down, option down}"'
