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Re: Click menu item with option key down



If you are adding a printer perhaps you could do this with "do shell script"
and the lpadmin command. It would look much better than seeing Printer Setup
Utility appearing on the screen.

-- 
Matthew Smith


> From: rfitz <email@hidden>
> Reply-To: <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:01:58 -0400
> To: AppleScript Studio <email@hidden>
> Subject: Click menu item with option key down
> 
> How can I change the code below so that when the click action is
called, it
> sends a click with the option key down.

activate application "Printer Setup
> Utility"
tell application "System Events"
 tell process "Printer Setup
> Utility"
  click menu item "Add PrinterŠ" of menu "Printers" of menu bar
> item
"Printers" of menu bar 1
 end tell
end tell

In order to get the advanced
> menu item to appear, you need to hold
down the option key and either click the
> Add button or hold the option
key and select Add Printer from the Printers
> menu.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.



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