If you have a solution to this, please report back. I am interested in what you come up with.
--Nick Paulson On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Jesse Grosjean wrote: > 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/cocoa%40nickpaulson.com > > This email sent to co...@nickpaulson.com _______________________________________________ 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
