Re: Finding the focused UI element
Re: Finding the focused UI element
- Subject: Re: Finding the focused UI element
- From: Arjen Baarsma <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:27:00 +0200
Thank you very much for your reply Bill.
activate application "TextEdit"
tell application "System Events"
tell (first application process whose frontmost is true)
get value of attribute "AXFocusedUIElement"
perform action "AXShowMenu" of result
end tell
end tell
I'm afraid that your little script script does not work for me
actually (did have TextEdit open btw). What I get is the error
message: "The variable result is not defined."
The problem is that when I ask for the value of the attribute
"AXFocusedUIElement" of any application, I don't get anything back.
It does know that the attribute exists because it would give an error
message about that otherwise, but assigning it to a variable means
that variable will remain undefined.
I'm still running OS X 10.4.11 (yes, I'm a cheapskate) and I saw in
one of your other e-mails that you're using OS X 10.5.4, so I've
asked someone running Leopard to run the script and it worked there.
It therefore seems quite likely that my problem has been fixed in
Leopard (which doesn't do me any good at the moment unless I decide
to buy Leopard).
– Arjen
p.s. Sorry, should've sent the reply to the mailing list instead of
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