Re: GUI Scripting: Text fields and areas
Re: GUI Scripting: Text fields and areas
- Subject: Re: GUI Scripting: Text fields and areas
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:23:51 -0500
on 02-12-31 6:27 AM, Simon Forster at email@hidden wrote:
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Do you think I am seeing a deficiency in the current implementation of
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System Events which doesn't "see" tab groups and text UI elements; a
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quirk unique to the shareware app I'm testing against; a. n. other
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issue?
It can be any of the above. The accessibility API on which GUI Scripting is
based is not yet complete, nor bug free. In addition, the implementation of
the "standard" accessibility API in Carbon and Cocoa is not yet complete,
and it differs as between Carbon and Cocoa. Furthermore, individual
applications that use custom UI widgets that don't take advantage of
automatic accessibility mostly don't yet support custom accessibility for
some or all of their custom UI widgets. And there is at least one other
category of difficulty: some applications use "standard" UI widgets but
place them in a nonstandard containment hierarchy. Given these constraints,
it is remarkable that GUI Scripting works as well as it does at this time,
in the beta release. I expect it to get even better by the time it is final.
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