OSX GUI Manipulation?

[Richard Gaskin]

bfr at nwlink.com wrote:

>>Normally, you just use the AppleScripts directly with the
>>application. Otherwise QuickKeys can manipulate any app
>>whether it has applescripts or not...
> 
> 
> Many apps are not scriptable, or do not expose everything to scripting.
> Filemaker is highly scriptable but there is still a long list of actions
> that are not scriptable.
> 
> System Events is the application built into the operating system for GUI
> scripting. For many actions, no other utility is required.
> 
> Quickeys and iKey are both commercial utililties which provide more
> full-featured GUI scripting.
> 
> In the past, other programming tools like FaceSpan provided features that
> allowed programmatical scripting of the GUI of other Mac applications. It
> is my understanding that Rev is trying to compete with other programming
> tools like Realbasic and Facespan. I am asking if Rev provides a
> competitive feature set.

Other applications can be manipulated only to the degree that they want 
to be.  The mechanism for that is AppleScript.  If a program allows 
itself to be modified via AppleScript, you can send AppleScript from Rev 
just as you can from other tools.

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