Feature Request: Scripting

FlipMartin · August 15, 2013, 1:00pm

Hi,

I love TotalSpaces, but one thing I really miss is being able to script it. More specifically, I’d love to be able to:

get the current space’s name or index
switch to a space by name or index
move a window to a space by name or index

Thanks and keep up the great work!

stephen · August 17, 2013, 8:09am

Actually you can do that. There is a C API

github.com

binaryage/totalspaces-api/blob/master/ruby/lib/TSLib.h

//
//  TSLib.h
//  totalspacesapi
//
//  Created by Stephen Sykes on 27/1/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Stephen Sykes. All rights reserved.
//
//  The API is a premium feature, and will only work with registered versions of TotalSpaces.
//

#ifndef totalspacesapi_tslib_h
#define totalspacesapi_tslib_h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

#define TSAPI_MAX_SPACES 16

/*
 * In case of comm error, all the functions apart from tsapi_libTotalSpacesVersion() will 
 * return an empty string, zero, false or a pointer to a struct containing zero spaces (in

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and there are Ruby bindings

We would aim to make an AppleScript interface, but that’s a little further off in the future as Mavericks is occupying us for now.

FlipMartin · August 17, 2013, 7:22pm

Thank you very much for the reply, Stephen! I agree that supporting Maverick is more important right now, but I really hope you’ll eventually implement AppleScript. In the meantime, I’m using the API.

However I never used Ruby before, so as you can probably imagine, figuring out how to install and use the totalspaces gem (and its dependencies) was a bit or a pain in the arse, to be honest. But I finally managed it and now I can do things from Keyboard Maestro that weren’t possible before. So that was worth it.

Thanks again!

kizu · May 13, 2014, 2:51pm

Any news on this? Mavericks is out, so it would be nice it there would be AppleScript interface one day.

stephen · May 14, 2014, 3:40pm

I know AppleScript is popular, but we do have Ruby bindings for the TotalSpaces2 API. AppleScript remains as a lower priority than some other requests.

What are you specifically trying to do?

kizu · May 24, 2014, 7:12pm

Basically this, but if ruby API would fit my needs, then the applescript wouldn’t be that necessary (however, the basic support for it could be helpful, as it would be really easy to use in different cases, like Alfred workflows or Automator scripts).