workflow-osx: a "Desktop Workflow" monad with Objective-C bindings

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Exposed modules use unallocated top-level names: Workflow

a "Desktop Workflow" monad with Objective-C bindings.

includes bindings to:

press keys with modifiers
get/set the clipboard
launch/focus applications
get the name of the current application
open URLs

for example:

-- | cut the currently highlighted region
cut :: (MonadWorkflow m) => m String
cut = do
 sendKeyChord [CommandModifier] XKey
 delay 250
 getClipboard

-- | transform the currently highlighted region, via the clipboard
transformClipboard :: (MonadWorkflow m) => (String -> String) -> m ()
transformClipboard f = do
 contents <- cut
 setClipboard (f contents)
 sendKeyChord [CommandModifier] VKey

see Workflow.OSX for several more examples

(if hackage won't build the docs, see them at http://sboosali.github.io/documentation/workflow-osx/index.html)

(this package is on hackage for convenience, but it's still a prerelease)

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Versions	0.0.0, 0.0.1, 0.0.1
Change log	None available
Dependencies	base (>=4.8 && <4.9), bv (>=0.3 && <0.4), bytestring (>=0.10 && <0.11), exceptions (>=0.8 && <0.9), filepath (>=1.4 && <1.5), free (>=4.12 && <4.13), http-types (>=0.8 && <0.9), mtl (>=2.2 && <2.3), transformers (>=0.4.2 && <0.4.3), workflow-osx (==0.0.1) [details]
License	GPL-3.0-only
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2015 Spiros M. Boosalis
Author	Spiros Boosalis
Maintainer	samboosalis@gmail.com
Category	Accessibility, Apple, Automation, Bindings, Desktop, FFI
Home page	https://github.com/sboosali/workflow-osx#readme
Bug tracker	https://github.com/sboosali/workflow-osx/issues
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/sboosali/workflow-osx
Uploaded	by sboo at 2015-10-11T02:46:39Z

Modules

Workflow
- Workflow.OSX
  - Workflow.OSX.Bindings
    - Workflow.OSX.Bindings.Raw
  - Workflow.OSX.Constants
  - Workflow.OSX.DSL
  - Workflow.OSX.Example
  - Workflow.OSX.Execute
  - Workflow.OSX.Extra
  - Workflow.OSX.Marshall
  - Workflow.OSX.Types

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workflow-osx

a (free) monad, with Objective-C bindings, for "Workflow" actions.

for detailed examples, see the documentation on hackage https://hackage.haskell.org/package/workflow-osx or github (<http://sboosali.github.io/documentation/workflow-osx/index.html).

Issues

the build

foreign dependencies always complicate the build process. it's known to work with the following:

  $ sw_vers
  ProductName:	Mac OS X
  ProductVersion:	10.9.5
  BuildVersion:	13F34

C compiler

  $ gcc --version
  Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
  Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.51) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
  Thread model: posix

Haskell compiler

  $ ghc --version 
  The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.10.1

TODO

platform agnosticism

exploit the free monad's flexibility to define platform-agnostic workflows

problem: windows (Linux/Windows) versus processes (OS X)

problem: keyboards. Apple keyboards don't have the Windows key, Windows keyboards don't have the Apple key. some keyboards have a dozen random extra unbound keys.

automatic `delay` insertion

problem: currently, delays must be inserted manually. keyboard shortcuts in Emacs succeed with no delay. keyboard shortcuts in Chrome, like closing a tab with M-w, may drop without a long delay (like 250ms). furthermore, different actions need different delays between them (e.g. inserting text into Chrome can be done without delay).