Re: Get UI Attribute Value
Re: Get UI Attribute Value
- Subject: Re: Get UI Attribute Value
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:33:05 -0700
- Thread-topic: Get UI Attribute Value
I think that's PreFab, not LateNight : )
On 10/06/09 2:29 PM, "Bruce Robertson" wrote:
> Using Late Night's excellent UI Browser, I am able to read the detailed
> contents of a Filemaker web viewer. However, I can't quite figure out how to
> actually get a value out of it.
>
> If I point the web viewer to www.filemaker.com, then I can say this:
>
> attribute "AXValue" of static text of group 1 of group 1 of text field
> "Search FileMaker.com" of group 1 of list 1 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1
> of window "Basic VList" of application process "FileMaker Pro" of
> application "System Events"
>
> And get back this.
> Note that it shows the actual contents of the text field "Search
> FileMaker.com"
>
> attribute "AXValue" of static text "FileMaker Server" of group 1 of group 1
> of text field "Search FileMaker.com" of group 1 of list 1 of UI element 1 of
> scroll area 1 of window "Basic VList" of application process "FileMaker Pro"
> of application "System Events"
>
> But I can't figure out how to actually retrieve the value or do any kind of
> useful coercion.
>
> Complete script:
>
> activate application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
> tell application "System Events"
> tell application process "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
> attribute "AXValue" of static text of group 1 of group 1 ¬
> of text field "Search FileMaker.com" of group 1 ¬
> of list 1 of UI element 1 ¬
> of scroll area 1 of window "Basic VList" of ¬
> application process "FileMaker Pro" of ¬
> application "System Events"
>
> set f to item 1 of result
> end tell
> end tell
> activate me
> f
>
> (*
> attribute "AXValue" of static text "FileMaker Server" of group 1 of group 1
> of text field "Search FileMaker.com" of group 1 of list 1 of
> UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of window "Basic VList" of
> application process "FileMaker Pro" of
> application "System Events"
> *)
>
> Bruce Robertson
>
>
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