UI Scripting menu items
UI Scripting menu items
- Subject: UI Scripting menu items
- From: Ken Liu <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:22:50 -0400
Hi,
I'm fairly new to both AppleScript and UI scripting. Please be
indulgent with me if this question has an obvious answer.
This is my script (it's supposed to get a list of the network locations
defined on the system and allow the user to choose one -- not very
useful yet but later on I was going to make it toggle between settings
each time it's activated):
tell application "Finder"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
set current_process to process 1 whose frontmost is true
tell process "Finder"
set frontmost to true
set location_list to the title of every menu item of menu "Location"
of menu item "Location" of menu "Apple" of menu bar 1
set location to (choose from list location_list default items
"Automatic" with prompt "Pick the location:") as string
tell menu bar 1 to click menu item location of menu "Location" of
menu item "Location" of menu "Apple"
delay 1
end tell
set frontmost of current_process to true
end tell
I'm running into two problems
1. Sometimes the list of network locations is not properly populated.
I have "Home" and "School" defined as locations, but sometimes only
"Network Preferences..." shows up as a choice in the location_list. At
other times, all the menu items do show up. I've put delay calls in
all sorts of places and can't find a consistent pattern. How can I
make it work consistently?
2. This is the bigger problem: even when the script seems to "work" it
does not. The script terminates but I'm still in the Finder, rather
than back in the current_process as I expect. And here's the thing
that really baffles me, _until_ I click on the apple menu myself, the
network location is not in fact switched! In other words, the script
seems to "queue" up the clicking action and not execute it until I
manually go and click on the apple menu itself, at which point it goes
ahead and performs the UI action it's supposed to. This is best seen
when I select the "Network Preferences..." option. The Finder just
sits there and does nothing until I click on the apple menu, and the
moment I do the Network Preference pane launches.
And if I switch to another application before I click on the apple
menu, the script simply does not do anything.
I've changed the delay time with no improvement.
Any suggestions on how I can get this script to do its thing instead of
just queuing up the "click"?
Thank you for your help
Ken
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