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Re: GUI Scripting: accessing menus causes error

<rant>
Of course, this wouldn't be a problem at all if Apple had followed their own
guidelines and provided even the most basic AppleScript/AppleEvent support
in Preview.app.

Personally, if I needed an AppleScript-based method of opening a document
I'd use something like:

tell application "Almost any .app that isn't Apple's.app"
open file "path:to:some:file"
end tell

And not resort to some hack to select a menu.

While there are workarounds such as:

tell application "Finder"
open file "path:to:some:file" using "path:to:preview.app"
end tell

Or even:

do shell script "open -a preview /path/to/some/file"

There's still no excuse to not include such basic functionality in any
application.

Apple ought to be ashamed of themselves, but I doubt they care.

Andrew
:)

</rant>

On 6/20/03 2:20 PM, "Henrik Boes" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am still trying to get at least a bit of a handle on GUI scripting
> and am running into the following error when accessing menus:
>
> System Events got an error:
> NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4
>
> The script in question is the following:
>
> tell application "Preview"
> activate
> end tell
> delay 10
> tell application "System Events"
> tell process "Preview"
> click menu item "Open" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
> delay 1
> end tell
> end tell
>
> Thoughts?
>
> I am running Mac OS X 10.2.6.
>
> Henrik Boes
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