Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application
Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application
- Subject: Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:02:53 +0100
Le 5 janv. 2010 à 16:46, Jesse Grosjean a écrit :
> I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor.
>
> - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/
> - http://github.com/jessegrosjean/quickcursor
>
> The idea is to replace the input manage based "edit in" features with
> a generic program that provides the same feature, but using public
> API's instead of input manage hacks.
>
> Right now QuickCursor works through the accessibility api to
> read/write text from the target app. This works well for many apps
> (ones that expose their text as a single writable string attribute to
> the accessibility api), but not all apps do that. And as a result
> QuickCursor doesn't work everywhere. And so I'm looking for an
> alternative idea. The accessibility api also has a problem that it
> seems to mess up the undo stack in some programs.
>
> Someone suggested that I use AppleEvents to automate select
> all/copy/paste out of and then back into the target app. That would
> seem to be a greate approach, but I'm not sure how to do it. Is there
> anyone on this list who would be willing to help?
I'm not sure this is the way to go.
You will encounter the same issue than with Accessibility API. The target application has to support it.
In fact, I'm pretty sure there is far less app with scriptability enabled than app with accessibility available.
-- Jean-Daniel
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