This hint will let you toggle the state of the Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer via AppleScript and a hot key -- activate and hide the panels just by pressing their assigned hot keys. I'll use Proxi for the hot key assignments, but the AppleScripts should work with any such program -- Spark, Keyboard Maestro, Quickeys, Butler, etc. (This hint is similar to this earlier hint, but provides a toggle functionality and works in 10.5.)Install Proxi, then open the Proxi Editor. Choose Insert Trigger » Hotkey Monitor from the Action menu beneath the Triggers portion of the Proxi Editor window (or drag it in there from the Components window). Replace the selected text (Hotkey Monitor) in the new Trigger with Toggle Character Palette. Click Set in the right half of the Editor window. Press Control-~ (tilde), or the key combination o...

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