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How about making System *Events* recordable?
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How about making System *Events* recordable?


  • Subject: How about making System *Events* recordable?
  • From: Jeff Porten <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:43:46 -0400

Here's a question for either the list denizens working at Apple, or for anyone with the chops to put something this together....

We've discussed before the general uselessness of recording AppleScripts since so few apps are recordable. But having spent more time than usual in the last week putting together UI scripting, I'm thinking that *those* actions should be eminently recordable. After all, recording at the System Events level is just a matter of capturing clicks and keystrokes; the only difficult thing I can think of is whether a given click should be recorded as absolute or as focusing a particular object.

The advantage, though, is that suddenly you have a master method for recording any set of actions on a Mac, for scriptable and nonscriptable apps alike.

Is something like this possible? (And yes, I'm aware of third-party macro applications that do this, but I'm thinking how cool this would be within the AppleScript domain.)

Best,
Jeff
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