Re: Modifying Pitch Shift in QuickTime Player (was: no subject)
Re: Modifying Pitch Shift in QuickTime Player (was: no subject)
- Subject: Re: Modifying Pitch Shift in QuickTime Player (was: no subject)
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:42:40 +0100
On 15 Sep 2006, at 02:14, Stan Cleveland wrote:
This code correctly shifts pitch OMM:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
set show av controls window to true
end tell
Thanks for the confirmation that the general approach works in
QuickTime Player 7.1.3, Stan.
Incidentally, if anyone was wondering why my version eschewed the
direct scripting of QT Player to open the AV controls window, it was
because of issues that arise (here, at least) when multiple movies
are displayed. Under such conditions, the AV controls don't seem to
'connect' properly to a newly opened movie. So my script closes the
AV controls window (if it's already open), opens it using a keystroke
(which evidently forces an appropriate connection) - and then closes
it again after the slider has been adjusted. (Of course, the
behaviour that makes this sort of workaround necessary may have been
fixed in later versions.)
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On 15 Sep 2006, at 10:06, Martin Orpen wrote:
Us "Intel guys" apparently like to order our UI elements a little
differently:
set value of slider 5 of group 3 of window 1 to 400
Ah - that would explain a lot.
And as the properties of the groups contain little else apart from
"missing value" you'd probably have to use a really nasty kludge of
determining which group had the lowest x and y coordinates to make
your script truly "universal" :-)
Right. Or perhaps a test for the existence of group 3 (the AV
controls window has only 2 groups here). Still a bit messy.
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tell window 1 to if exists group 3 then
set value of slider 5 of group 3 to 400
else
set value of slider 4 of group 1 to 400
end if
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I suggest we stop using the term "UI Scripting" and call it
"Uidoku" instead - as it requires the same infuriating and
monotonous use of trial and error to get it to work.
LOL! But isn't that half the fun? ;-)
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On 15 Sep 2006, at 05:59, Peter Baxter wrote:
The slider is nameless in my version also and the script cant
identify it. I've made a simple give-up version that just opens
the av window and leaves the rest to the mouse for now.
What I've got here is:
Mac OSX 10.4.7
Applescript 1.10.7
iTunes 7.0
Quicktime Player 7.1.3
system events 1.3.1
Interesting, Peter. That's pretty much the same as Stan - or, if
you're an "Intel guy", the same as Martin. (And if the latter, have
you tried Martin's version yet?)
I would be very surprised if an updated version had less access
than an older one.
Call me a hardened cynic, but I'm afraid I wouldn't be *too*
surprised. :-)
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kai
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