Re: GUI scripting: is assistive device access enabled?
Re: GUI scripting: is assistive device access enabled?
- Subject: Re: GUI scripting: is assistive device access enabled?
- From: Jeff Ganyard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 17:55:51 -0700
On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 5/1/03 4:40 PM, "Jeff Ganyard" <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've been digging all thru the various prefs files and whatever other
docs I can find to figure this out but have come up with nothing so
far.
How can I tell if the 'Enable access for assistive devices' setting is
turned on?
I haven't been able to find any pref or default that refers to it. And
when I run a 'choose menu' command when the setting is off it just
exits. So I can't look for an error...
Any ideas? How can I confirm that a script using this stuff has
succeeded or failed? or can I find out in advance if the script will
be
able to work?
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder" -- or some other process
try
get menu bar 1
on error
activate
beep
display dialog "You first need to enable access for
assistive
devices in Universal Access System preferences." buttons {"Cancel"}
default
button 1 with icon 0
end try
end tell
end tell
You can even open the correct pane in System prefs for them if you
want to.
--
Paul Berkowitz
I tried that!
That works if the setting 'Enable access for assistive devices' is on.
I'm finding that when it's off I don't get an error - it just exits the
script.
jeff
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