RE: System Events OK Button Problem
RE: System Events OK Button Problem
- Subject: RE: System Events OK Button Problem
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:48:54 -0800
This finally seems to have emerged here today after having been sent out last week. I've had conversations concerning it on the InDesign AppleScripting list, and after trying different System Events-based approaches that didn't work, finally got QuicKeys to do what I couldn't script.
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On 2/21/12 at 1:28 PM -0800, Rick Gordon wrote in a message entitled
"System Events OK Button Problem":
>I'm trying to script an InDesign dialog response for which there is no direct application access (the "Convert to Profile.." command), so I'm using System Events. I've got everything working, except that none of the approaches for accepting and dismissing the dialog is working (as commented below).
>
>What's my problem here? (OS 10.6.8)
>
>--
>
>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
> activate
>end tell
>tell application "System Events"
> tell application process "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
> set vEditMenu to menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
> set vConvertToProfileMenuItem to menu item "Convert to Profile..." of vEditMenu
> click vConvertToProfileMenuItem
> set vConvertToProfileDialog to window "Convert to Profile"
> tell vConvertToProfileDialog
> set vAppliedCMYK to pop up button 2
> click vAppliedCMYK
> keystroke "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" & return
>
> keystroke enter key --NOT WORKING
> --OR
> key code 36 --NOT WORKING
> --OR
> perform action "AXPress" of button "OK" --NOT WORKING,
> --CONFIRMED THAT BUTTON AND ACTION EXISTS
>
> end tell
> end tell
>end tell
>--
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>
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>EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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