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Felix,
I would propose you to reconsider the current, tedious way of entering actions step-by-step in Behaviour Factory. With UI scripting, RemoteBuddy could "read" a front application's available menu's and GUI elements, present those onscreen in its own format, and thus control apps exactly as the Mac UI does.
As known, UI scripting is not ALWAYS without problems but in these cases step-by-step action editing can come in.
Please find enclosed the following script that illustrates how to interactively "read" UI elements and emulate selections - as RB could do.
I would suggest to introduce such an option into RB's initial Behaviour dialog.
This will certainly facilitate interfacing with always new and updated applications on our disks !
Regards,
Eelco Houwink
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tell application "System Events"
set fApp to name of some application process whose frontmost is true and background only is false
set Appz to name of application processes
tell application fApp
activate
set appn to choose from list Appz with prompt "Select app" OK button name "OK"
end tell
if appn is false then return
set targName to item 1 of appn
set theApp to targName
set mainTarget to application process targName
repeat
set fApp to name of some application process whose frontmost is true
tell process fApp to activate
set UIlist to (get mainTarget's UI elements)
set UInames to {}
repeat with h from 1 to number of items in UIlist
try
set name1 to (get name of item h of UIlist)
if name1 = "" then set name1 to ("itempje " & h) as string
on error
set name1 to (class of item h of UIlist & " " & h) as string
end try
set UInames to UInames & {name1}
end repeat
if UInames = {} then exit repeat
if number of items of UInames = 1 then
set selname to item 1 of UInames
else
set selname to (choose from list UInames with prompt "UI elements of \"" & targName & "\": " default items 1 OK button name "Browse") as string
if selname is "false" then exit repeat
end if
set itemNo to my getIndex(selname, UInames)
set mainTarget to item itemNo of UIlist
try
set targName to name of mainTarget
if name of mainTarget = "" then set targName to fApp
on error
set targName to fApp
end try
end repeat
end tell
repeat until fApp = theApp
tell application theApp to activate
tell me to do shell script "sleep 1"
tell application "System Events" to set fApp to name of some application process whose frontmost is true
end repeat
tell application "System Events" to click mainTarget
on getIndex(i, l)
repeat with n from 1 to count l
if l's item n is i then return n
end repeat
0
end getIndex
Last edited: 31.08.2006 00:16:12
