Re: Keystroke question
Re: Keystroke question
- Subject: Re: Keystroke question
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:38:41 -0700
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID143TkVRMQ6432X32
> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:10:AM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> Le 2015/11/22 à 18:05, Robert Poland <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The line;
>> tell application “System Events” to keystroke “f” using {option down}
>>
>> gets me the Application ‘Searching “This Mac”’ rather than typing a Option f.
>>
>> What I’m trying to do is add an Option F to the name of a folder in a Finder window whose name is selected with the entry point set to the end of the name
>>
>> TIA.
>
> As you failed to tell it which process must be targeted, System Events send the keystroke to the frontmost one which appear to be the Finder.
>
> Use :
> tell application “System Events” to tell process "theProcessSupposedToTreatTheKeystroke"
> set frontmost to true
> keystroke “f” using {option down}
> end
>
>
> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 novembre 2015 18:10:50
Here’s the entire script. It still gets ‘Searching “This Mac”.
(* test, with Finder item selected and ready for editing name. *)
tell application “Finder”
activate
set x to selection
if length of x ≠ 0 then
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Finder"
set frontmost to true
keystroke "f" using {option down}
end tell
else
tell application "Mail" to activate
delay 1
repeat 1 times
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {option down}
end tell
end repeat
end if
end tell
Robert Poland
Fort Collins, CO
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