Page Setup
Page Setup
- Subject: Page Setup
- From: Charles Ross <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:56:41 -0700
I'm attempting to write a generic handler that will take an
application name, paper size, orientation and scale and set the page
setup options of that application to those settings. My first
inclination to solve this is to use interface scripting. Getting the
Page Setup sheet or window to appear is fairly straightforward, but
targeting the interface elements within the Page Setup sheet has
proven far more difficult than I thought it would be.
Here is my handler so far:
on PageSetup( appName, paperSize, orientation, scale)
tell application "System Events"
tell process appName
my SelectMenu(appName, "File>Page Setup…")
end tell
end tell
end PageSetup
If anyone is interested in how I'm using that second parameter to
SelectMenu, let me know and I'll share it here. But suffice it to say
that the handler works as I've tested it.
I found a sample script online at http://bbs.applescript.net/
viewtopic.php?pid=35438 that seems to do some of what I want, or at
least point me in the direction of what I want. That page has within
it the following code snippet:
click pop up button 1 of UI element 1 of UI element 4 of window "Page
Setup"
delay 0.2
keystroke "A4"
When I place that snippet after the call to SelectMenu (after
replacing 'window "Page Setup"' with 'sheet "Page Setup"' because I'm
testing with Preview right now), I get the following error:
System Events got an error: NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4
I've also tried investigating the UI hierarchy with UI Browser and
UIElementInispector, neither of which have really helped me to track
the hierarchy to the interface elements I need (the Paper Size menu,
the Orientation buttons and the Scale field). Beginning with the page
setup sheet, UI Browser shows the following hierarchy:
unknown 1-> button "OK" (1), button "Cancel" (2), button 3
text 1
unknown 3 -> unknown 1
pop up button 1
OK, the sample I found online refers to "UI element 4", but I see an
"unknown 3", so I tried replacing "UI element 4" with "UI element 3"
in my script, but received the same error as before.
Has anyone used GUI scripting to control a Page Setup dialog window/
sheet? I've been working on this for two days, and haven't gotten any
further in my code. As a wrinkle in the process, this script will
eventually have to work with both Panther and Tiger.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chuck _______________________________________________
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