Re: Need a mouseup click in a specific location of the screen
Re: Need a mouseup click in a specific location of the screen
- Subject: Re: Need a mouseup click in a specific location of the screen
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:49:47 -0600
- Replyto: email@hidden
on 11/14/2000 5:30 PM, Don Preisler wrote:
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How do I get a mouseup click at certain coordinates?
With Applescript? You don't. Applescript wasn't designed with that kind of
stuff in mind. In Applescript, you don't tell applications to click the
mouse here or there. Instead, you tell them to "check mail", or "create new
document", or whatever the desired end result is.
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I'm doing a middle of the night restart of my Canto Cumulus Server and need
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to click a dialog box that Canto displays before it will finish executing
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the simple script.
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Unfortunately, this particular Cumulus dialog has neither a text message nor
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text on the four buttons that appear in this dialog box. The default button
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just beeps and it's necessary to click the far left "mystery button" to
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continue the restart.
My God...are you serious? These people should be tapped on the forehead
with a hammer for writing Macintosh software like that...
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This may sound extremely strange to you non-Cumulus users, but it's just
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another headache us Cumulus users encounter (what do you expect for a
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$2100.00 program?)
Ouch...you got ripped.
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Can someone help me? I'll find the coordinates, but what is the syntax?
This sounds like a job for a macro utility such as QuicKeys. Or maybe you
should just badger Canto to fix their software...