Re: UI scripting question
Re: UI scripting question
- Subject: Re: UI scripting question
- From: Jim Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:46:48 -0500
Bill,
Thanks for the reply.
I'm running Safari 3.1.2 on OS X 10.4.11 on a dual 450 PowerPC.
Leopard isn't an option.
With UI Browser, the path to the landscape button shows as:
PATH TO ELEMENT:
application "Safari"
standard window "Jim's Place" (window 1)
Sheet "Page Setup" (sheet 1)
[MISMATCH] radio group (radio group -2147483648)
button "" (button 2)
I've tried this:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
click menu item "New Window" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of
menu bar 1
delay 1
click menu item "Page Setup…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of
menu bar 1
click button 2 of radio group of sheet 1 of front window
keystroke return
end tell
end tell
The page setup dialog comes up but it doesn't change to landscape mode.
if I use:
click button 2 of radio group 1 of sheet 1 of front window
I get a System Events error.
Am I just out of luck on this one?
BTW, OT, is there a way to capture the text in the Screen Reader
window of UI Browser?
Thanks,
Jim Brandt
I'm guessing that I haven't fully defined the path to the
landscape button,
but how
do you define it when it's not named?
You use its index reference form, as you did. Your script is
erroring on
something else, I think; maybe the Page Setup menu item is disabled
when the
front window hasn't yet been directed to a Web site, or maybe
clicking the
orientation buttons don't work in the versions you're using. This
works, in
Safari 3.1.2 in Mac OS X 10.5.4:
activate application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
keystroke "n" using {command down} -- open new window
keystroke "http://www.google.com";
keystroke return
delay 1
keystroke "p" using {command down} -- open print sheet
click checkbox 2 of radio group 1 of sheet 1 of front window
end tell
end tell
You will have to adjust that if you're using an older version of
Safari or
Mac OS X. The latest version of Safari no longer has a Page Setup
menu item
or dialog/sheet, at least when running under Leopard, because the
old page
setup stuff is consolidated in the Print dialog in applications
that take
advantage of Leopard's new printing facilities, like Safari.
By the way, you're doing way too much work in your script. Instead of
testing whether Safari is running or frontmost, just start the
script with
this command:
activate application "Safari"
That will launch Safari if it isn't running, and bring it to the
front if it
is.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com
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