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Jamie Kahn Genet

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:05 pm
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It moves the mouse pointer and clicks on things I never did, yet the
listed commands after recording my actions show the correct action!
*headdesk* WTF?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:05 pm
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In article <1ifwpub.1hw3bbc87socaN%lists@wizardling.geek.nz>,
lists DeleteThis @wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

> It moves the mouse pointer and clicks on things I never did, yet the
> listed commands after recording my actions show the correct action!
> *headdesk* WTF?

Apple's actually letting people record UI scripting?? God what a
horrible idea...

Can you show an example script?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:05 pm
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Patrick Stadelmann

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:57 pm
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In article <1ifxejx.eqig5i72t254N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>,
jamiekg RemoveThis @wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

> Sure it's a kludge, but it would be handy for the apps that are not
> Applescriptable like Apple's own Software Update :-(

You can control software updates using the "softwareupdate" command line
tool, that can be invoked from AS using the "do shell script" command.

Patrick
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:55 pm
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In article <jollyroger-BAA729.09571124042008 DeleteThis @individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger DeleteThis @pobox.com> wrote:

> > They're giving people a way to automate apps that aren't scriptable.
>
> I have yet to see a case where, IMO, GUI scripting is a suitable
> replacement. If a certain application isn't scriptable, more often than
> not, there are ways to accomplish the end result that do not involve UI
> scripting with all its problems and inefficiencies.

As an example, Apple added "Forward as Attachment" to Mail.app in
Leopard. But unless I missed it, they didn't add it to the AppleScript
dictionary. You need to use UI scripting to automate this.

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