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: Jesse Grosjean <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:10:32 -0500
I know most apps don't support AppleScript directly, but I thought
there was some way to automatically script the menu items of most
apps.
But wait... I bet I can already call those menu items through the
accessibility API anyway! So I guess I probably don't need
AppleEvents. Thanks for your response, made me think just a bit
furthur I can probably work through this solution myself now.
Jesse
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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