Re: System Events not working
Re: System Events not working
- Subject: Re: System Events not working
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:34:18 -0400
on 03-04-07 3:11 PM, Andrew Oliver at email@hidden wrote:
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IMHO GUI Scripting is creating a whole new suite of AppleScript
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problems... Too many people are trying to directly replicate the actions
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they would take manually to perform a task - "click this menu bar, pull down
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this menu, select this menu item" when there are much more direct ways of
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achieving the desired result - "minimize this window"
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GUI Scripting should be a last resort.
True. But the issue is not different in kind from the learning curve for
standard AppleScript. Countless beginners have written scripts that select
an item, then copy it (to the clipboard), then select the destination, then
paste it.
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