Hi! I am trying to turn off some keyboard shortcuts if they have
been selected and I am having a problem where my code seems to only
turn off the check box of whatever row is currently highlighted. I
am looping through each row checking for the "Keyboard Navigation"
line. However, if last I had the "Input Menu" line highlighted for
example and it is currently turned ON, that one seems to be the one
that is turned OFF. Is there something I am missing to highlight
the line I want before clicking the check box, or something wrong
with my code to click on the correct check box? I am running OS
10.4.2, AppleScript 1.10, and ScriptEditor 2.1.
Not much about this sort of stuff is that obvious or intuitive,
Jennifer - so don't feel too bad about it. :-)
In fact, you're already very close. Your observation about the click
affecting the highlighted row is spot on - as is your question about
how to select the required row. You can achieve the latter in one or
two ways - perhaps most directly by using the 'select' command.
A couple of other minor points. It's not essential to explicitly
activate System Preferences to perform operations like this (unless
you prefer to - or need to for some other purpose). Neither is it
strictly necessary to loop through each row to identify the required
one - since you could filter it instead:
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tell application "System Preferences" to set current pane to pane
"com.apple.preference.keyboard"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
to tell tab group 1 of window 1
click radio button "Keyboard Shortcuts"
tell outline 1 of scroll area 1
tell (first row whose value of text field 1 is "Keyboard
Navigation")
if value of checkbox 1 is 1 then
select
click checkbox 1
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
