Hey guys, trying to play Fortnite but their toggle sprint sucks horribly. Was wondering if I could make a script that holds shift down when I press shift, then releases shift when I press shift again. Thanks in advance, hope I posted this in the correct thread as I'm new here (obviously). Also I have no programming background so will need explanations as if I'm 5 years old.
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I'm not sure I have time to talk you through it like a 5 year old, but here's the bare bones of an AppleScript:
Start with a TextEdit document open - I've used TextEdit for this example since I don't have FortNite. I think the code is reasonably self explanatory.
As far as I know, there's no way of making the shift key presses continue until the shift key is pressed a second time. However, the code above at least means you can do multiple keypresses with an optional delay.
As a side note, many years ago (we're talking late 90s!) I had a job where I had to open a huge bunch of large Illustrator files simultaneously (it's a long story). Each one popped up a dialog when opened which needed the return key hitting to continue the opening process. Since I had no idea about scripting at the time, I selected all the files in Finder, dragged them onto Illustrator and wedged the return key down using two books and a banana, then went for my lunch. When I came back, all the files were open. Not all automation requires code! ;-)
Good luck.
Code:
--make sure your target app has focus
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
repeat 10 times
keystroke return
delay 1 --optional delay between keystrokes
end repeat
end tellStart with a TextEdit document open - I've used TextEdit for this example since I don't have FortNite. I think the code is reasonably self explanatory.
As far as I know, there's no way of making the shift key presses continue until the shift key is pressed a second time. However, the code above at least means you can do multiple keypresses with an optional delay.
As a side note, many years ago (we're talking late 90s!) I had a job where I had to open a huge bunch of large Illustrator files simultaneously (it's a long story). Each one popped up a dialog when opened which needed the return key hitting to continue the opening process. Since I had no idea about scripting at the time, I selected all the files in Finder, dragged them onto Illustrator and wedged the return key down using two books and a banana, then went for my lunch. When I came back, all the files were open. Not all automation requires code! ;-)
Good luck.