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Re: UI scripting, windows order
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Re: UI scripting, windows order


  • Subject: Re: UI scripting, windows order
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:15:22 -0500

On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 09:56 America/New_York, Bill Cheeseman wrote:

It would be especially interesting to see accessibility notifications
implemented in AppleScript. Imagine what you could do with AppleScript if,
say, an 'on window closed' or 'on window changed' event for every running
application could be monitored.

If we were to take a poll about GUI Scripting's most important missing features this would be my #1 item. It is the one ability I miss the most that we had in Westcode Inc.'s OneClick in prior operating systems. I recall posting a note about this very subject a couple of weeks ago. Without this, GUI Scripts are going to waste an enormous amount of time in delays or loops to ensure that a UI Element is available before trying to access it. I've already run into this scripting one of the system's preference panes where I had to insert a delay 3 into the script to reliably wait until the pane was accessible.
(Before anyone points it out, I'm aware I can script preferences using do shell script to script defaults, that isn't the point. :) )

There are a number of people on this list that are familiar with GUI scripting via OneClick. I would hope they would all ante up their 2" on the subject.

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