CKS Alternative for Mac

**Nemona** · January 4th, 2012, 10:22 AM

Dear members of the Consortium,
Here I am presenting an idea and a very limited application to help the ones with a Mac out there.

Applications like AHK / CKS don't really work, and Applescript has no way of looking at mouse locations.

The most annoying problem was: Applescript / Automator have NO way to send a keystroke to an application when it is not in the foreground.

So, I hacked up some method and implemented it in a small application.
It is very limited, with 0 configuration possibilities, but it just shows the possibility (I mimiced some UI of CKS, functionality of it is not implemented yet).Feel free to test it out.
This is mostly for disenchanting / prospecting, with a hardcoded timer of 5 seconds. (However, your mouse movements / key presses make it a random action).
This is a one-to-one action, just like with CKS. And presses the button '4' every 5 seconds whenever you pressed a key / moved your mouse.

Attached is the app. I will most definitely continue developing this. I had lots of fun hacking my way around Apple limits.Also, make sure you haven't edited your Info.plist for World of Warcraft (why would you do that?).

Greetings,

Matsy

P.S. Technical explanation for the tech-savvy among us.This requires a combination of Cocoa / Carbon, unfortunately. For this, I am using quite some Carbon API's that just do not exist on Cocoa (with this I mean AXUIElements to post the key, and EventHandlers to listen for them. So, combining those, and using FSC APIs to get the process IDs (I didn't expect this to be such a PITA) allowed me to develop this.

Updates, now with source:

Feel free to update the latest version at: https://github.com/Matsy/CKS-Mac/downloads
Feel free to fork, modify and pull request at: https://github.com/Matsy/CKS-Mac

Latest update: You can properly modify the key to press (need to work on error handling there, keep it simple guys one letter & one number) and you can switch between key/mouse or both!

**Sinshroud** · January 4th, 2012, 12:02 PM

Looking good man good job. I'm sure many mac users on this forum will be highly pleased.

**Reverb** · January 5th, 2012, 01:17 AM

Nice, +rep

**Khelynna** · January 5th, 2012, 09:37 AM

+rep from on Mac person to another!

**Pliaksi** · January 5th, 2012, 10:27 AM

Nice one. +rep and added link to this thread in the CKS one.

**kapowaz** · January 6th, 2012, 08:33 AM

Thanks for doing this, Nemona! Just a slight issue:

You have Mac*OS*X 10.6.8. The application requires Mac*OS*X 10.7 or later.

I'm still running 10.6 on my Mac Pro (my main WoW machine) — still not able to upgrade on this machine for various reasons. I'm guessing you just compiled to target 10.7, so do you think you could compile a version for 10.6? Also, how would you feel about sharing the code? I don't know what the general policy is on here for sharing code of contributed apps, but I think it'd be a good idea to give people confidence in the security of such an app to have 100% transparency and to be able to say for sure that it's not got any kind of malware. Hell, I'd be interested in playing around with it myself too, if there are any interface enhancements I might be able to contribute.

**Nemona** · January 6th, 2012, 11:15 AM

Compiling one with 10.6 support now. (It's gonna need at least 10.6, because of the APIs I am using). And yeah, when the code is a bit more structured (I would really advice against using it currently as well, since it's not really that functional) I will most definitely release the code. Time to get working on another update!

**Nemona** · January 6th, 2012, 12:47 PM

Okay. Code is online for everyone to see (or fork). The code there is far more structured and all the UI elements work now (Listen to Keyboard, Mouse, Keys to press and the such.

You can always get the latest build at https://github.com/Matsy/CKS-Mac/downloads (which is also the repository URL if you want to see the source).

**kapowaz** · January 6th, 2012, 03:59 PM

Just tried this out on my MacBook Air which runs Lion, and it makes WoW crash near enough immediately

**Nemona** · January 6th, 2012, 06:16 PM

Okay. I think I know what that issue is. Do you have the WoW crashlog / trace? With that, I can probably tackle this easily.

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