Re: When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
Re: When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
- Subject: Re: When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:19:56 -0800
I think it would be great for you to implement "proper AppleScript
support" to accomplish what you want, but in the meantime, I would try
to figure out why the app is not responding as expected to the
accessibility APIs.
I have been looking at accessibility lately, so I took a peek at this
application. I didn't really find anything interesting except that I
can get the windows to show up - by launching macam from the command
line instead of double clicking it. That is, if you open Terminal and
navigate to the executable:
cd macam.app/Contents/MacOS
./macam
Suddenly the windows are showing up in UI browser, etc. This makes me
suspicious of dependencies on environment variables or perhaps the
current working directory.
Maybe that can at least be a workaround for you in the mean time.
Daniel
On Jan 12, 2004, at 8:41 PM, Chris Garaffa wrote:
Where does a scripter turn when UI Scripting doesn't work?
On Panther, I'm trying to create a stay-open script to take an image
from the macam application[1] and save it, then probably upload it to
my public web server. Unfortunately, the macam application isn't
scriptable (not even the Core Suite). I've tried running UI Element
Inspector and UI Browser on it, but they see nothing but the menu bar
and its menus. So far, I've gotten macam to take the picture, switch
to the picture window and initiate the save process, but from there on
everything fails. I've tried, as on Apple's site:
tell window "Untitled"
tell sheet 1
set value of text field 1 to "something"
end tell
end tell
enclosed in the proper tell System Events/tell Macam blocks. on the
"set value" line, Script Editor reports "System Events got an error:
NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4" The thing is, macam seems to be
using a standard save panel.
So, when even UI Scripting won't yield results, what does everyone
here do?
(Of course, I'm going to look into adding AppleScript support to macam
myself, since it's open source. Being my first time, it's going to
take quite a while... so I'm hoping for a solution in the mean time.)
[1] <http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net>
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Chris Garaffa
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