Re: How Many People on the ASUL use UI Browser?
Re: How Many People on the ASUL use UI Browser?
- Subject: Re: How Many People on the ASUL use UI Browser?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:23:26 -0400
UI Browser is powerful and very easy to use. Most importantly for this mailing list, it is oriented toward GUI Scripting. Among other things, it generates several kinds of GUI Scripting AppleScript statements for you, based on your selection of a target application's user interface element in UI Browser's main browser view. It also provides UI element index references for your use in GUI Scripting.
Apple's Accessibility Inspector is powerful but, especially in its most recent incarnation, very difficult to use. And it is not designed to assist scripters with GUI Scripting. Among other things, it does not provide information about index numbers for user interface elements (because indexes are largely irrelevant to the Accessibility Inspector target user group, namely, developers who are making their macOS applications accessible to users with disabilities using Apple's Accessibility API).
Bill Cheeseman
When I absolutely can’t avoid it, SD6’s explorer and the Xcode tool ‘Accessibility Inspector’ get me where I need very quickly.
What other advantages would I get from using Bill’s tool that those don’t already give me (so if you wanted an invitation to evangelise, there it is!)?
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