Show context menu on Mac with keyboard using AppleScript and Automator - macos

Question

I am trying to find a way to bring up the context menu in Finder on a Mac with Yosemite without touching the mouse/touchpad.
A context menu.
After extensive research on this issue, the only possible route seems to be using AppleScript with Automator, and assign keyboard shortcut to it.
The AppleScript below was found on stackoverflow, if I run it inside the Automator, it would bring up the context menu on one of the files on the desktop (not the file currently selected.)
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
set target_index to 1
set target to image target_index of group 1 of scroll area 1
tell target to perform action "AXShowMenu"
end tell
end tell
Automator screenshot
But I am having trouble getting it to work with keyboard shortcut.
Also I will need to make sure that it brings the menu for the currently selected file.
Can someone provide some insight about how this can be done?

Answer 1

You can read about the script below here: MacScripter / right click
# Copyright © 2012 - 2015 McUsr
run showRightClickMenu
script showRightClickMenu
on run
set mouseLoc to (do shell script "~/opt/bin/MouseTools -location")
set {astid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
tell mouseLoc to set {mouseX, mouseY} to {it's text item 1, it's text item 2}
set {mouseX, mouseY} to {(mouseX as integer), 1200 - (mouseY as integer)}
tell application id "sevs"
set frontProcessName to name of every process whose frontmost is true
-- tell a to set aa to (get its name)
set wnCount to count of windows of process named frontProcessName
if wnCount > 0 then
tell window 1 of process named frontProcessName
set wnPos to its position
set wnsize to its size
end tell
set {wnX, wnY, wnWidth, wnHeight} to {item 1 of wnPos, item 2 of wnPos, item 1 of wnsize, item 2 of wnsize}
set {leftBound, RightBound, upperBound, lowerBound} to {wnX + 1, (wnX + wnWidth - 21), wnY + 50, (wnY + wnHeight - 51)}
if mouseX ≥ leftBound and mouseX ≤ RightBound then
else if mouseX < leftBound then
set mouseX to leftBound
else
set mouseX to RightBound
end if
if mouseY ≥ upperBound and mouseY ≤ lowerBound then
else if mouseY < upperBound then
set mouseY to upperBound
else
set mouseY to lowerBound
end if
end if
end tell
set mouseLoc to "c" & mouseX & " " & mouseY
do shell script "~/opt/bin/cliclick " & mouseLoc
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
end run
end script

Answer 2

This will bring up the context menu of the currently selected file of the desktop:
tell application "Finder"
set sel to get the selection
if (sel is {}) then
log "Nothing selected! Can't proceed"
return
end if
set target_item_name to the name of (item 1 of sel)
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
tell group 1 of scroll area 1
set target to the first image whose value of attribute "AXFilename" is target_item_name
tell target to perform action "AXShowMenu"
end tell
end tell
end tell
*Tested on 10.8.5 in script editor