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Alternately you can set the focus to true, then keystroke whatever you want, then do the AXConfirm action. Sometimes text fields that stubbornly won't accept a value will accept one when you keystroke it in. Also, as Bill wrote, using a tab instead of the AXConfirm can sometimes be the key.

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Leaf Capture"

set textField to text field "Type a base file name for your next shot." of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window ("Leaf Capture - " & posixworkpath as string)

tell textField

set focused to true

set value to "Hello, world!"

perform action "AXConfirm"

end tell

Best Regards,

Zack

On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Jon Rescca wrote:

The small piece of code I have tried so far for setting the textfield doesn't seem to work, AppleScript doesn't fail, but gives no result either when executed.

set posixworkpath to "/Users/user/Desktop/myworkfolder"

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Leaf Capture"
set value of attribute "AXValue" of text field "Type a base file name for your next shot." of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window ("Leaf Capture - " &posixworkpath as string) to "Hello, world!"
end tell

References:
	>Assistance for UI scripting text entry (From: Jon Rescca <email@hidden>)