activate application "Printer Setup Utility"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Printer Setup Utility"
key down option
click menu item "Add Printer…" of menu "Printers" of menu bar item
"Printers" of menu bar 1
key up option
end tell
end tell
Adding the key down option seems to have no effect on the result of
running the script above. I am still not able to get the Advanced
menu option to show without manually holding the option key and
clicking Add.. button in Printer Setup Utility.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
-Rhon
On 4/22/05, Christopher Hickman <email@hidden> wrote:
> I can't see the dictionary in a pretty format, I have to read it from the
> .scriptTerminology and .scriptSuite files, since I don't have GUI access to
> a Mac. Take a look in the System Events dictionary for the key down and key
> up commands and see if it says there how to specify the option key. I was
> just guessing with "key down option" before.
>
> Topher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rfitz [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:48 PM
> To: Christopher Hickman
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Click menu item with option key down
>
> The "key down option" has no effect on the result. The advanced
> option does not appear. Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rhon
>
> On 4/22/05, Christopher Hickman <email@hidden> wrote:
> > I may have spoken too soon. I found key down and key up in
> > Hidden.scriptSuite under System Events.app (While I don't have GUI access
> to
> > a Mac, I do have ssh access).
> >
> > Try this, though I don't know if it will work:
> >
> > activate application "Printer Setup Utility"
> > tell application "System Events"
> > tell process "Printer Setup Utility"
> > key down option
> > click menu item "Add Printer." of menu "Printers" of menu bar item
> > "Printers" of menu bar 1
> > key up option
> > end tell
> > end tell
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Hickman [mailto:email@hidden]
> > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:03 PM
> > To: 'email@hidden'
> > Subject: RE: Click menu item with option key down
> >
> > I'm replying just to you. I don't want to make extra traffic on the list
> for
> > stuff I'm guessing wildly about, since I don't have a Mac I can test on.
> > Does Add Printer have a key equivalent? If so you could use...
> >
> > keystroke "N" using (command and option)
> >
> > ...where "N" is the key equivalent. I was hoping there was a way to tell
> > system events to keydown a modifier, then send the click, then keyup. I
> > don't think you can, though.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rfitz [mailto:email@hidden]
> > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 2:36 PM
> > To: Christopher Hickman
> > Cc: email@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Click menu item with option key down
> >
> > click: cause the target process to behave as if the UI element were
> clicked
> > click UI element -- The UI element to be clicked.
> > [at list] -- when sent to a "process" object, the { x, y
> }
> > location at which to click, in global coordinates
> > Result: UI element -- the reply for the command
> >
> > Above is the System Events Applescript Dictionary entry for the click
> > command. Unfortunately I do not see anything about modifiers
> > parameter. Hopefully I am wrong...
> >
> > -Rhon
> > On 4/22/05, Christopher Hickman <email@hidden> wrote:
> > > I don't have a Mac right now to test, but doesn't the click command have
> a
> > > 'with modifiers' parameter? Check the System Events dictionary...
> > >
> > > Topher
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: applescript-studio-bounces+tophu=email@hidden
> > > [mailto:applescript-studio-bounces+tophu=email@hidden] On
> > Behalf
> > > Of rfitz
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:02 PM
> > > To: AppleScript Studio
> > > 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 Printer." 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.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -Rhon
> > >
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