Demo Keys (macOS only)

A simple solution for automatically typing sequences of text, when scripting product demos.

See it in action

I provide a list of blocks of text to type, then I cycle through them triggering their playback, by pressing command+shift+p.

Setup

1. Install Hammerstone

2. Give Hammerstone accessbility permissions

   1. Run Hammerstone (Command+Spacebar, Type Hammerstone)
   2. Go to it's Preferences (found via the system tray menu, look for a hammer)
   3. Press Enable Accessibility, and it will take you System Settings -> Accessibility. Enable Hammerstone

3. Restart hammerstone and verify that accessility permissions are given

4. Copy the init.lua to hammerstone's config location (This is file is what Hammerstone calls its Config)

   ./sync.sh
   

5. Edit the array of strings at the top of ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua to set your sequence of text blocks to paste.

6. Now select Reload Config from Hammerstone's menu

7. To run a demo

   1. Go to an input box and press command+shift+p to trigger the first text block
   2. To trigger the next block, press command+shift+p again.

8. Press shift+option+P to restart the sequence

This doesn't have a great workflow for saving/editing multiple demo plans, for now you'll just have to modify the ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua file with new keyboard sequences.