How to specify a keyboard shortcut to launch an application

I'm not much of a script writer but I have this script:
tell application "System Preferences" to launch
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
end tell
It was saved as an application and it works fine when double-clicked.
Now, how do I create a keyboard shortcut to run this script?

the first line in your script is redundant but you don't need the script for this. see this link
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090903085255430
another option is to use a 3rd party application launcher like Butler, Quicksilver, launchbar etc.

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Hi Peter!
There is not a built in way to launch apps via keyboard shortcuts on your Mac. (At least not that I know of?)
A very popular app is Quicksilver. You can launch apps very quickly by typing in the first few letters of the name of the app. Most people that get used to it have a hard time going back...here's the link:
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
If you make your Automater workflow into an app then you could launch it via Quicksilver...
Reg

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How can I assign a keyboard shortcut to launch a program? For instance, the F13 key to launch Pages, etc.?

Maybe I'm missing the point.
probably. the hint work as follows. you pick an application you want to launch with a shortcut, say, Pages, as the OP wants. you make a service using automator that launches Pages. you make this service available in all applications so that you can launch Pages no matter what application is currently active. you then make a shortcut to this service in system preferences->keyboard->keyboard shortcuts. because you made the service available in all applications the shortcut will work in all applications, i.e. always.

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You can sync data (bookmarks, contacts, photos, movies…) of your various apple products using itunes Sync.
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Then set up which items are to be synced: Click the corresponding tabs in iTunes to specify which information you want synced between the iOS device and your computer.
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luisandre wrote:
In word , if you press "alt" show you all the options you have . Appear numbers or letters in each options of the toolbar. So is more easy to work with the keyboard. How do you do this in pages?
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f0rgiven wrote:
Is there a way to verify the OS sees the "extra" keys on the keyboard (the mouse also has some extra buttons that i would like to assign but i want the keyboard first)?
Go to the system preference mentioned in my earlier post & follow the instructions it provides to try to assign an application-specific shortcut to one of the "extra" keys (which will require one of modifier keys to be pressed along with it). If it recognizes the key, you will see some symbol for it in the second box, along with one for the modifier key. (The modifier keys are the shift, option, etc. keys that don't do anything by themselves).
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怎么取消或者屏蔽firefox的快捷键？我在使用其他软件时的很多快捷键都被firefox浏览器给占用了，麻烦得很，所以想取消那些快捷键。
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怎么办！！！！！烦死了！！！！
严重抗议向firefox提出抗议：功能应该让我们自己来选择，而不是定死！！！！
How to cancel the keyboard shortcuts？
donnot tell me edit it！
i want to STOP it，，，，not change！！！！！！

Hello,
I will try my best to guess the issue you are reporting. I don't speak Mandarin and I used Google Translate to guess what the issue is. So, if I got that wrong, I do apologize.
You are looking to disable the Firefox shortcuts - all of them. And you want to do this because you think these shortcuts are blocking a Firefox plugin you are using. Is that correct?
您想禁用Firefox的快捷方式 - 所有这些。并且要做到这一点，因为你觉得这些快捷方式阻止你使用的是Firefox插件。这是否正确？
谢谢

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You need automator to create services, as detailed in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2241804 a four-parter by Sal Saghoian on *Automation in Snow Leopard*
This, describes old and new automator—services stuff:
http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/08/automator-and-finder-interactions-in-os-x-10- 6/
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In full screen mode how can i use keyboard shortcut just like

recently i used adobe cs 5.1 version and some problem are there which problem was not in cs 3 and cs 4 in advance version why this problem kindly tell me the solve which may be i dont know
my problem is, in photoshop 3 screen mode are there 1-standard screen mode, 2- full screen mode with menu bar and 3- full screen mode
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Chris, he means the windows-only ALT+letters shortcuts, not brightness contrast in particular.
RA, this is your third thread on the topic, please do not create multiple threads...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957264
and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957168

How to apply different keyboard shortcuts to an actions with the same name but in different menus within one application?

Hi,
Hopefully someone can help. I have the application "djay" and in two different menus there is the action "Eject". I was wondering if it's possible to apply different keyboard shortcuts to those actions with the same name? I can't see how to do it as it seems you can only write the action but as there are two it doesn't seem to work for me.
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Hello Sir. This Is Nilesh B.Desai From India. Our Clients Need is Picture Should Not Be Download So How Can We Disable Keyboard Shortcut For That Website Only.

Hello...
We are In the Business Of developing Website and Software.. We Are facing A problem Regarding Download. Our Clients need is not to download or print a single picture from website. so need help how can i disable download or print by using keyboard or with use of mouse.. so need to block all keyboard shortcut for such website only.. so if it is possible then please help us. we will great thankful to you..
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No, Firefox is user choice rules over the "wants" of individual websites as far as disabling contextual menus and the keyboard commands.
Placing a transparent image over the image will keep the less technical user from saving the main image. If they do try to save it all they'll get is the transparent image overlay.

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You can't set it. That's part of the problem. When I go into the keyboard shortcut window to make a custom shortcut and select Layer> Flatten.... and then click to add a shortcut, type in Cmd+F1 it accepts it. But when I use the Cmd+F1 shortcut, background changes to black. I then must go into Preferences to change it back to what it was.
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Assigning keyboard shortcut to launch application

hi there
i know its possible to assign individual keyboard shortcuts within an application, but what about launching an application? do be specific, i want a hot-key to launch system preferences. is it possible?
thank you for helping
shai

You should checkout Quicksilver or Butler.

How do you load keyboard shortcuts?

Hi all.
I don't get it: The keyboard-shortcuts dialog has a way to save sets of shortcuts, but no way to load them. What is the point then?
Thanks for any insight.

"What I was doing was simply attempt to disabuse you from your pre-conceived notion that everyone is for migrating, copying and deploying stuff"
I never said people want to do that. I sure don't want to do that, and I'm pretty sure that no one really wants to do that. What's your alternative? You say you would rather re-record or re-establish all of these workarounds on every machine one by one. That's fine for you. But it's absurd on a large scale or for experienced users.
"You're asking for functionality that already exists."
Exists if you record a macro. Fortunately, you can load action sets. And nice try with the condescension about "simplistic users." Pasting is not an action that caters only to "simplistic users." That asinine suggestion and tired strawman amounts to the old "you're not using it right" excuse, which is never accompanied by an explanation of how.
Adobe's longstanding failure to address design defects is evident all over Photoshop:
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2. By default, Undo alternates between Undo and Re-do. Other applications have had multi-step undo for 20 years, and there's already a re-do key.
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4. After drawing a selection box with the Rectangular Marquee tool, you can't resize it without going up to the Select menu and picking "Transform Selection" (or mapping a key for this on every system). Why can't you resize it by dragging any edge immediately? Even the free software that comes with scanners handles this properly.
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6. No integrated thumbnail browser. It took until what, 2005, before Photoshop had any thumbnail browser at all, and it arrived in the form of a bloated separate application. Shareware photo-editing programs in the '90s had speedy and efficient thumbnail browsing, but in 2011 Adobe still can't pull it off. We hoped "mini-Bridge" was finally going to address this, but nope: You still have to have Bridge running. Sad.
And that's just what I can think of at the moment. Then there's Illustrator, which is practically abandonware at this point. If you want to talk about "many users over many years," this glaring defect is a great example:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/856221?start=0&tstart=0
So you guys can get to work, or just keep making excuses and blaming users. I wonder what it'll be.

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