scripting applescript menu-clicking questions

[Bernard Devlin]

Thank you very much, Ian.  Much appreciated.  Amazing how much
knowledge is available on this list. :)

I'll look into Prefab UIBrowser.  Hopefully it is something I can
distribute with my app.

Bernard

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ian Wood <revlist at azurevision.co.uk> wrote:
> Off the top of my head...
>
> On 25 Mar 2010, at 13:48, Bernard Devlin wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am having trouble with getting applescript to click on menu choices
>> in Safari (there is nothing in the dictionary for what I'm trying to
>> do).  Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle these things?
>
> Buy Prefab UIBrowser. Absolutely indispensable for this kind of stuff even
> though it hasn't been updated in a couple of years.
>
>> Secondly, will Safari be able to do these actions in the background?
>> I mean, in the script I'm currently working on, Safari is told to
>> "activate", then everything else happens.  Can I script menu
>> actions/button clicks without Safari becoming visible?
>
> Anything involving mouse clicks *have* to be done with the target app
> frontmost. Menus will probably be the same.
>
>> Finally, assuming that all of this is possible, is there a version of
>> Applescript/OS X before which such things would not be possible?
>
> 10.2 required an additional download for GUI scripting, 10.3 had it
> built-in, but full features came with 10.4 and above.
>
> Ian