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 23:44:29 +0000
- Thread-topic: Show Emoji & Symbols GUI access (and another issue)
Wow, thanks!
I'll give that a try (although any added software purchases makes these
thing more complicated to manage.)
On 11/8/17, 3:41 PM, "David Gregg" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Ed,
>
>The App Store indicates that the app "Display Menu" has an in-app
>purchase that will upgrade the app to one that has AppleScript
>capabilities. I downloaded it, since I have been looking for something
>similar, and can confirm that the in-app purchase provides regular
>AppleScript capabilities, including detecting and selecting display
>resolution, through a script dictionary.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>David
>
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 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> on
>>behalf of Jim Underwood <email@hidden>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 4:16 PM
>> To: AppleScript Digest <email@hidden>
>> 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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