Re: click at under Mavericks
Re: click at under Mavericks
- Subject: Re: click at under Mavericks
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:55:54 -0500
On Jan 2, 2014, at 12:04 PM, koenig.yvan < email@hidden> wrote: I was really puzzled when I discovered that the standard instruction click at {x, y} failed with :
I was told a very long time ago, by the Apple engineer who originally wrote the System Events Processes Suite code, that the 'click at' command first determines what UI element is at the given location, and then sends the 'click' command to that UI element. That seemed an odd choice to me at the time, because the only reason I ever had to use 'click at' was when 'click' on a specific UI element wouldn't work for some reason. I would rather have seen 'click at' send a 'click' to the given location, so I could use it as an alternative technique when clicking the UI element didn't work. As it was written, however, 'click at' always failed if 'click' failed.
I don't know whether the underlying code has changed since then, and I don't know whether this information sheds any light on the behaviors you are seeing. But it does suggest some additional lines of testing. |
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