Re: Is there a way in Applescript GUI scripting to Simulate Drag and Drop action?
Re: Is there a way in Applescript GUI scripting to Simulate Drag and Drop action?
- Subject: Re: Is there a way in Applescript GUI scripting to Simulate Drag and Drop action?
- From: Ashwin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:43:27 +0530
Thanks Yuma, But then, that seems so indirect way of simulating the drag and drop. One would have actually expected Apple to provide this action as a part of System Events --> Processes suite. Apple invented Drag and drop and yet there is no direct way of doing it by System Events .
Also, Thanks John. Though that wasn't a solution i was expecting (because my application doesn't have a dictionary defined for applescript, so i had to use System Events to simulate the end user actions.), i picked the lines in the script you posted.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
It works when voice over is turned on (command+f5) or with fn key pressed for laptops. Once toggled, you use ctrl-option , and . to do drag and drop respectively between windows or applications. I've used it for some auto scripts on message receive for imessage, but i use voice over anyway. Perhaps you can make a turn on/off script with the voice over suite.
Best regards,
Yuma
On 21/06/2012, at 4:27 PM, Ashwin <
email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I need to automate a scenario where there would be a need to simulate drag and drop action between 2 applications. My scenario would be similar to this. Drag a contact from address book and drop it in to the "To" field of a New message in Mail application. Is it possible to explicitly simulate the drag and drop event via GUI scripting? If not, can anyone please suggest a way to simulate this event?
>
> Many Thanks
> Ashwin
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