When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
- Subject: When even UI Scripting doesn't do it...
- From: Chris Garaffa <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:41:53 -0500
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
email@hidden
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