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By: Jarrett House North » Blog Archive » Smack my Mac up

Jarrett House North » Blog Archive » Smack my Mac up — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:46:40 +0000

[...] I know: Sudden Motion Sensor hacks are passé. But I finally got around to playing with one that invokes Exposé, and now I’m hooked. I ended up modifying it to invoke Dashboard instead, which required [...]

By: derkostka

derkostka — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:10:43 +0000

Did anybody get this working with 2 differnet “claps” ?

Maybe: Left-smack = Expose, Right-smack = Spaces !

I have been trying this, and know that Expose is “100″ whereas Spaces listenes on ASCII 101 - But i have no idea how to get this into a perl script

Help ! Anybody ?

Thanks for that wonderful Blog !

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:44:00 +0000

uffff you gona hate me for posting so clumsy but…

when i try with smackmeuh.pl triggering it from terminal it works
but i really want it to work through executable so I can be happy as Heferkimbo

thanks in advance

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:40:59 +0000

sorry again but also with this smaxpose2.command code it doesnt work, the same as above

help

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:26:32 +0000

hello, im unexpirienced but i try to read and i have problem

ok i downloaded amstracker and the code
i made a (/usr/local/bin) and put everything inside
i made this code

/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $SENSIBILITY = 26;
my $TIME = 80; # (0.05 seconds)

open F,”./Users/getoutski/bin/AMSTracker -s -u0.005 |”;

my $stable;
my $foo = ”;

while() {
my @a = /(-?\d+)/g;
print, next if @a != 3;

if((abs($a[1]) + abs($a[0])) $SENSIBILITY && $stable > $TIME) {
$stable = 0;
$foo = $a[0] < 0 ? ‘key code 118 using {control down}’ : ‘key code 101′;
} else {
if($foo ne ”) {
`osascript -e ‘tell application \”System Events\” to ${foo}’`;
$foo = ”;
}
}
}

and saved it “smaxpose.command”
afterwards i run (chmod +x smaxpose.command) from terminal and make it executable
started both AMStracker and new executable
and i get only this

Last login: Mon Feb 18 00:20:48 on ttyp2
/Users/getoutski/bin/smaxpose.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
getoutskis-computer:~ getoutski$ /Users/getoutski/bin/smaxpose.command; exit

By: JohnnyK

JohnnyK — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:10:31 +0000

hi…iv just got this smackbook thing yesterday..i got everythin sorted..but everytim i restart compt..i hav to start all ova again wit termainal…i read wat brian wrote bout smapose.command or somthing…but i cannot find where it is…a lil help plzz? wat do i need to do so that i dont hav to mess wit this terminal thing everytim i wanna use it thannks in advanceee

By: Brian Jepson

Brian Jepson — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:32:45 +0000

Hi Curtis, if you’ve got Spaces set to start when you press F8, try changing 101 to 100 in the osascript line toward the end of the .command file

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:14:03 +0000

Thanx everyone for their posts. I got is to work with a new MacBook running OS X 10.5.1. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get it to work with spaces instead of expose?

By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:11:51 +0000

hey i can’t seem to save the file after i put all the in for in the terminal file it just say cancel or terminate but i won’t sve what i put in and the only way i can get the smack pro to work is to leave that file open! and ideas

By: Marc Thomas

Marc Thomas — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:01:31 +0000

Can someone give me a step by step guide on how to do it?
I’ve got the AMSTracker and smaxpose.command both saved into a folder called Smackbook Expose.

what do i do?

bearing in mind, i’ve done absolutely no work with terminal before, so be gentle please!