RE: Window watcher
RE: Window watcher
- Subject: RE: Window watcher
- From: "Geoff Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:53:27 -0400
Then perhaps Okey Dokey Pro can make a comeback...
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Okey-Dokey-Pro.shtml
Geoff
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Subject: Re: Window watcher
On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
> Is there a way to watch a particular application for dialog boxes and
> when one pops up, do something (e.g. click on the OK button)?
By itself, AppleScript (even with GUI Scripting) does not automatically
notify you or respond when a window is created or any other event happens. A
few scriptable applications implement this sort of thing, but most do not.
The Standard Additions scripting addition responds to certain events (Folder
Actions), but not the sort you want.
But my UI Actions product does exactly what you want. Read about it and
download a non-crippled 30-day free trial version at
<http://pfiddlesoft.com/uiactions>. You use the UI Actions Setup application
to "register" to observe notifications broadcast by any target application
via the accessibility mechanism built into Mac OS X, and to "attach" any
AppleScript script to that notification so that the script is triggered and
runs whenever the notification is received. Filters are available to limit
the notifications to particular windows (by title, for example), and you can
always write the script to do additional filtering. The system implements 30
or 40 kinds of notifications; one of them, AXWindowCreated, notifies you
every time a window (such as a dialog) is opened.
You write the triggered script to do anything you like. If it is addressed
to a scriptable application, it can tell the application to do anything in
its terminology dictionary. It can also use GUI Scripting techniques to do
things like click specified buttons even in a non-scriptable application.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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