Thank you very much, Ian. Much appreciated. Amazing how much knowledge is available on this list. :)
I'll look into Prefab UIBrowser. Hopefully it is something I can distribute with my app. Bernard On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ian Wood <revl...@azurevision.co.uk> wrote: > Off the top of my head... > > On 25 Mar 2010, at 13:48, Bernard Devlin wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am having trouble with getting applescript to click on menu choices >> in Safari (there is nothing in the dictionary for what I'm trying to >> do). Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle these things? > > Buy Prefab UIBrowser. Absolutely indispensable for this kind of stuff even > though it hasn't been updated in a couple of years. > >> Secondly, will Safari be able to do these actions in the background? >> I mean, in the script I'm currently working on, Safari is told to >> "activate", then everything else happens. Can I script menu >> actions/button clicks without Safari becoming visible? > > Anything involving mouse clicks *have* to be done with the target app > frontmost. Menus will probably be the same. > >> Finally, assuming that all of this is possible, is there a version of >> Applescript/OS X before which such things would not be possible? > > 10.2 required an additional download for GUI scripting, 10.3 had it > built-in, but full features came with 10.4 and above. > > Ian _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution