kp: doesnt work (MacOS 12.6.2)

[sburlot]

when using the command kp

• cliclick kp:volume-up
• cliclick kp:volume-down
• cliclick kp:play-pause
• cliclick kp:arrow-up
• cliclick kp:arrow-down
• cliclick kp:brightness-up
• cliclick kp:brightness-down

(I've not tested all)

Nothing happens

weirdly, putting 2 commands works, le:
cliclick kp:brightness-down kp:brightness-up
or
cliclick ku:cmd kp:brightness-up

(The ku:cmd is just there to make a NOP command)

MacOS 12.6.2, iMac late 2015

[mocaffy]

I am experiencing the same problem
macOS 11.7.2

[dangarfield]

Same with me. kp doesn't work for me at all either.
macOS Ventura 13.4.1 (22F82)

[profsmallpine]

Ditto on macOS Venture 13.5

[chopin1998]

any update? same problem.....

[BlueM]

I have finally been able to reproduce kp-related problems (on macOS 14).

What was/is really odd is that kp works even if you execute another command after it:

# Does not work
cliclick kp:brightness-up

# Works
cliclick kp:brightness-up p:'Hello world'

This looked an obvious indicator for a timing issue in newer macOS versions.

For anyone having this problem, please try if this modification solves the issue:

// In ActionExecutor.m, replace lines 89 thru 91 with:
if (options.isLastAction) {
    waitingtime.tv_sec = 0;
    waitingtime.tv_nsec = 1000000; // Arbitraray dummy value
    nanosleep(&waitingtime, NULL);
} else {
    nanosleep(&waitingtime, NULL);
}

// Cf. https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick/blob/master/ActionExecutor.m#L89

I am very much interested to hear if that changes the behavior.

[stephen714]

Hi BlueM,
Firstly I should say I don't have much experience and am probably making silly mistakes.
I forked and cloned the master and used vscode to test this change. I tried make in the VScode terminal and the vanilla terminal to compile, but it gave errors;

myhomefolder@computername cliclick-kp-test % make
./generate-action-classes-macro.sh
cc  -include cliclick_Prefix.pch -I Actions -I .   -c -o Actions/ColorPickerAction.o Actions/ColorPickerAction.m
Actions/ColorPickerAction.m:86:35: error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.
   86 |             CGImageRef imageRef = CGWindowListCreateImage(imageRect, kCGWindowListOptionOnScreenOnly, kCGNullWindowID, kCGWindowImageDefault);
      |                                   ^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CGWindow.h:271:33: note: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' has been explicitly marked unavailable here
  271 | CG_EXTERN CGImageRef __nullable CGWindowListCreateImage(CGRect screenBounds,
      |                                 ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [Actions/ColorPickerAction.o] Error 1

The same error with CGWindowListCreateImage persisted with the clean and modified versions I tried
I'd love to help more rn but I'm at the end of what I currently know... 😞

[BlueM]

@stephen714: the problem is caused by an API which is no longer included in the macOS 15 SDK. For testing purposes, you can simply remove all code in the performActionWithData:withOptions: method in ColorPickerAction.m so it looks like this:

- (void)performActionWithData:(NSString *)data
                  withOptions:(struct ExecutionOptions)options {
}