Hi Bryan,
You might want to read through my archived list post about using
variable in VoiceOver here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08577.html
(Re: Another List? was: Re: apple script and vo)
This contained excerpted posts from earlier correspondence off of this
list about Automator (under Leopard) using variables. Actually, even
at that time you didn't have to double-click to select actions --
carriage return would add the action to the workflow. Quite a lot of
the way that navigation was outlined there reflects historical
behavior -- for instance, on applications where VoiceOver
accessibility is in a transitional state, I almost always have my
mouse cursor track my VoiceOver cursor so I can click on and activate
selections that I can't otherwise use. So there may also now be
simpler ways to navigate, although what is outlined will work.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 9, 2010, at 08:46, Bryan Smart wrote:
Has anyone here spent much time with Automator?
Most of the program works well, but there is a very big hole. It
seems almost impossible to use variables.
When you create a variable by adding a Set Variable action to the
workflow, and then try to use pop-up menus in other actions to
select the variable that you created, the names of the variables
don't appear in the menu. In places where I should hear variable
names, all I hear are menus with blank items that don't announce
anything. The menus in general read, since there might be an item in
the menu called "New Variable...", but the other entries, where I
should be able to select from existing variables, are all blank
entries.
There is a table in the window that shows all of the existing
variables. I can tell that the table contains rows through
VoiceOver's announcement of current row, but VoiceOver doesn't read
any content for the row. So, I can't hear the name or any other
status info about the variable.
Since there doesn't seem to be any way to edit or assign variables
other than using the user interface of Automator, it looks like
there is no way to use variables.
I've gone through the menus, but can't find any sort of adjustment
to the appearance of Automator that would help me out. Has anyone
else had better success with variables?
Bryan
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