Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
- Subject: Re: How about making System *Events* recordable?
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:37:15 -0700
On 8/16/05 9:43 PM, "Jeff Porten" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.)
Personally, I think anything that extends the use of UI scripting is a bad
thing.
IMHO (no offense to the Apple guys who wrote it, but) I think UI scripting
is a skanky hack designed to get around the inadequate support for
AppleScript at the application level (and Apple apps are amongst the worst
offenders).
I'd rather developers don't get lazy under the pretence that System
Events/UI scripting gives an acceptable level of scriptability/automation,
and actually implemented working dictionaries.
Unfortunately, sometimes I feel like I might be living a pipe dream.
Andrew
:)
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