Re: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access (and another issue)
Re: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access (and another issue)
- Subject: Re: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access (and another issue)
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:40:42 +0000
- Thread-topic: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access (and another issue)
I like this script. I'm wondering if an error trap and dialog alerting the user
to turn on "Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Viewers in menu bar" might be a good
idea. Also, on my mac that preference panel is strange. If you set Emojis to
show then go to the Keyboard pane and change that menu setting, it effects the
emojis menu. There also seems to be a long pause when the menu options are
first displayed.
So this script has inspired me to revisit another issue I've been having.
I have an FBA downloaded from the AppStore called "Display Menu." It put a menu
icon on the menu bar that allows the user to change the monitor resolution to a
custom value, overriding the standard values.
I use this on macs attached to big HDTV monitors mounted on walls in our
newsroom that cycle through web pages. Often the ideal setting for the monitor
is not available in the Displays preference panel but is with "Display Menu."
The problem is that when the mac restarts the display returns to the default.
I've been trying to use GUI scripting to select Display Menu option for the
specific monitor, but I can't.
I've tried SD's Explorer and UI Browser, but neither is seeing those menu
options.
I've noticed that apps that place items on the menu bar often have their own
way of doing things, even Apple's own apps. In some cases they become windows,
in other cases buttons or action areas.
So the first question, is there a way to control these items from GUI scripting.
The second question is it possible (without adding any third party software) to
change the display preference from an appleScript?
Ed
From: AppleScript-Users
<applescript-users-bounces+ed.stockly=email@hidden<mailto:applescript-users-bounces+ed.stockly=email@hidden>>
on behalf of Jim Underwood <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>>
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 4:16 PM
To: AppleScript Digest
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Subject: Re: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access
set emojiViewerMenu to first item of ¬
(menu bar items of menu bar 1 ¬
whose value of attribute "AXDescription" = "text input")
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