Re: Script the UNSCRIPTABLE
Re: Script the UNSCRIPTABLE
- Subject: Re: Script the UNSCRIPTABLE
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 10:21:46 +0000
on Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:49:56 -0400 Bill Briggs wrote:
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In the absence of any information about the elements in the dialog,
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you need to get the x,y coordinates of the particular element
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manually. You can do this in a number of ways, but an easy way is to
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take a screen shot of the dialog box and then open the image in
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Graphic Converter. Graphic Converter has a tiny window you can open
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that shows the position of the cross-hair cursor. Using this you can
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get the pixel coordinates of any or all of the elements in the
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dialog. Then you should be able to manipulate them based on position
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instead of name. I'd be very surprised if Player can't make this work
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for you.
aw Bill, are we not scripters? ; here's a couple of x,y coordinate grabbers,
an Akua one you can run from Apple Menu or such and a Smile text window
button...
property butt1 : {"Snap Coords", "Cancel"}
property butt2 : {"Repeat", "Done"}
property bla1 : "Place the cursor at the desired position and press the
enter key"
property bla2 : "The coordinates {"
property bla3 : "} are on the clipboard "
dlg1()
on dlg1()
display dialog bla1 buttons butt1 with icon -19133 default button 1
set dlgRslt to button returned of result
if dlgRslt = "Snap Coords" then return dlg2()
end dlg1
on dlg2()
set {x, y} to pointer location of (input state) --Akua Sweets OSAX
display dialog bla2 & {x, " : ", y, bla3} buttons butt2 with icon -20020
default button 1
set dlgRslt to button returned of result
if dlgRslt is "Done" then
set the clipboard to "{" & {x, ",", y, "}"}
return
else
return dlg2()
end if
end dlg2
---------.
-- Smile text window button....
to gProcs()
tell application "Finder" to ,
set procs to (every process whose file type = "APPL")'s name as list
return procs & "Finder"
end gProcs
on mouseUp(theButton)
set w to container of theButton
choose from list gProcs()
if result = false then
error number -128
else
tell application (result's item 1)
activate
display dialog "Position Cursor and Press Enter" buttons
{"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 with icon -19133
end tell
if button returned of result is "OK" then
set {x, y} to mouse location
set xy to "{" & x & ", " & y & "}"
end if
tell application "Smile"
activate
set w's selection to xy
end tell
end if
end mouseUp
--FWIW you can do point and click / keystroke stuff with Akua's 'input
state'
_____________________________ Andy
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