I know most apps don't support AppleScript directly, but I thought there was some way to automatically script the menu items of most apps.
But wait... I bet I can already call those menu items through the accessibility API anyway! So I guess I probably don't need AppleEvents. Thanks for your response, made me think just a bit furthur I can probably work through this solution myself now. Jesse On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devli...@shadowlab.org> wrote: > > Le 5 janv. 2010 à 16:46, Jesse Grosjean a écrit : > > I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor. > > - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/ > - http://github.com/jessegrosjean/quickcursor > > The idea is to replace the input manage based "edit in" features with > a generic program that provides the same feature, but using public > API's instead of input manage hacks. > > Right now QuickCursor works through the accessibility api to > read/write text from the target app. This works well for many apps > (ones that expose their text as a single writable string attribute to > the accessibility api), but not all apps do that. And as a result > QuickCursor doesn't work everywhere. And so I'm looking for an > alternative idea. The accessibility api also has a problem that it > seems to mess up the undo stack in some programs. > > Someone suggested that I use AppleEvents to automate select > all/copy/paste out of and then back into the target app. That would > seem to be a greate approach, but I'm not sure how to do it. Is there > anyone on this list who would be willing to help? > > I'm not sure this is the way to go. > You will encounter the same issue than with Accessibility API. The target > application has to support it. > In fact, I'm pretty sure there is far less app with scriptability enabled > than app with accessibility available. > -- Jean-Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
