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Re: UI scripting "Show Infos"


Every attempts I made to use GUI scripting to select the icon button in the "Show infos" window (under Mac OS X 10.3.9) failed.

I was quite ready to leave the script when I remembered that pressing tab just after opening the window was doing the trick.
Bingo, now I have a working script:

tell application "Finder"
activate
open information window of (selection as alias)
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
tell window 1
keystroke tab -- select icon button
keystroke "vw" using command down -- paste + close window
end tell -- window 1
end tell -- process Finder
end tell -- application System Events
end tell -- Finder

I knew that keystroke is able to send a string but I discovered today that the given modifiers are applied to every character in the string so I was able to code paste and close in a single instruction.

I tried to put the tab in the same instruction (tab + cmd) does the same that (tab) but here it doesn't works.

Yvan KOENIG
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