Re: Scripting system preferences in OS X 10.2.3 (Christian Boyce)
Re: Scripting system preferences in OS X 10.2.3 (Christian Boyce)
- Subject: Re: Scripting system preferences in OS X 10.2.3 (Christian Boyce)
- From: Christian Boyce <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:18:43 -0800
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 03:18 PM, Sander Tekelenburg
<email@hidden> wrote
I'd like to do this without resorting to scripting the GUI, for
portability reasons.
Which porrtability reasons you are referring to?
It has been pointed out (after I asked specifically ;)) that the
current GUI
scripting is to be considered a public beta, planned to end up in the
main OS
itself. The only other portability issue (I think) would be localized
OS X
versions, but as I understand it you can refer to menu items by index
number.
(See Chris Espinosa's message of December 21, in the thread "uh,
that's so
cool! AS 1.9.1")
If I write a script today that relies on the GUI-scripting public beta
I can be pretty sure that it will not work for most people, at least
not until the GUI scripting is a part of the standard OS X
installation, and even then it will be awhile as not everyone is going
to be up-to-date.
In my own office I have a fellow who is ordinarily very quick to update
to the very latest version of any program, but he is not an
AppleScripter and thus will not be likely to be aware of the
GUI-scripting stuff. So, if I write a script for him I have to also
install stuff for him-- not very portable if I have to first install
stuff on his machine.
Regardless, it would be nice to be able to actually "get" and "set"
brightness of the monitor, and the sound level. And, can anyone explain
why sound levels aren't integers from 0 to 7 anymore? I was astounded
to be able to set the sound level to 0.15.
Anyone out there able to help?
Regarding the GUI stuff, how does one figure out the index numbers for
buttons, pop-ups, etc.? How do I know that I'm trying to click button
3, say, and not button 4?
--
Christian Boyce
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http://www.christianboyce.com
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