macOS (applescript) is there a "vardump" command?

[vrillusions]

In other languages like python and php you can get a dump of every action available on an object. Like var_dump($_POST) in php or dir(os) in python. Is there something similar in applescript? What I'm trying to do is set the mouse sensitivity since I use the mighty mouse for day to day but a usb mouse for gaming and the sensitivities are really different. This is what I have so far:

tell application "System Preferences"
	activate
	set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.mouse"
end tell

Which will open up the mouse preferences. Now I need a way to set the "tracking" slider to a certain value, probably 0.5 if I want it in the middle. How do I inspect the current pane to get a list of what values I can change and optionally what range they support?

*edit
Got a little closer. I think I need to fill in the blank for the statement: 'get the name of every ??? of pane id "com.apple.preference.mouse"' that would give me all the names and I can figure out which is for the tracking slider

 

[vrillusions]

So I finally figured it out. There is no vardump type command that I could find but you can kinda do it with UIElementInspector (google it, it's a sample code project from apple). that will at least give you a name if it exists. But ultimately I needed to use System Events and UI scripting. But I found out how to determine the names of sliders that the ui element inspector doesn't give. Here's the working code:

set tracking to 9

tell application "System Preferences"
	activate
	set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.mouse"
end tell

-- need a delay before UI Scripting
delay 1

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "System Preferences"
		-- This returns the name of "slider 1" used below
		-- get name of slider 1 of window "Mouse"
		set value of slider "Tracking" of window "Mouse" to tracking
	end tell
end tell

tell application "System Preferences" to quit