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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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