Re: Is app running?
Re: Is app running?
- Subject: Re: Is app running?
- From: deivy petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:06:01 -0400
On May 8, 2005, at 18:35, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
No, your script is syntactically correct. Unfortunately, the AXURL
attribute
of a Dock item is returned as a URL object (Cocoa's NSURL? Carbon's
CFURL?
-- I'm not sure, as I sit here), and GUI Scripting doesn't seem to
know how
to decompose or translate it into a string. I'm not sure if a
consistent
convention has been established within Apple as to how to return AXURL
attributes (see below for Safari's approach, which differs from
that of the
Dock). If you look at the AXURL attribute of a Dock item in PreFab UI
Browser or Apple's UI Element Inspector (Accessibility Inspector in
Tiger),
you'll see that the value of the URL is in fact a file URL
representing a
URL of the form <file://localhost/....>. But you don't seem to be
able to
access it in GUI Scripting.
In other applications (Safari is the only one I've tried, but Mail and
TextEdit are likely the same), an AXURL object is an attribute of a
clickable Web link, and it is returned as a string that GUI
Scripting can
access. For example, if you use UI Browser to navigate the UI
elements in a
Safari page that has clickable links, you'll find that the links are
"AXLink" UI elements, and that one of an AXLink's attributes is an
"AXURL"
attribute of type string (speaking loosely). For example,
"http://googleblog.blogspot.com/";. A GUI Scripting reference to it
looks
like this, and in Safari it DOES work (watch for line wrap in the
middle):
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
get value of attribute "AXURL" of UI element "Google Blog"
of group
4 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 4 of window "About Google"
end tell
end tell
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Bill, thanks for explanation and for yet another pointer,
Accessibility Inspector. AI is different than the UI browser and has
a nice companion, which I'll use to see if I can get AXURL to make
any sense.
However, I tried AXURL in Safari and it does not have one. Mail does,
but Safari does not. Actually in Safari I have:
"<AXLink: “Accessibility Programming Guidelines for Carbon”>
<AXStaticText>"
That is, AXLink is a superclass of AXStaticText. AXStaticText does
not have AXURL as an attribute, but it does have an action attached
to it, namely AXPress.
The normal text in the web page, that is, the non link text, does not
belong to the AXLink class and, thus, it does not have an action
associated with it.
Now, Mail on the other hand has the behavior you described and so
does TextEdit. Do you really get the behavior you described in
Safari. Did your script work?
On my end, the results are quite different.
Running Tiger (as I gather you knew) on a G4 machine.
Thanks
deivy petrescu
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