macOS AppleScript To Click One Button Only If Another Button Is Unavailable

[JonHimself]

I'm fairly new to AppleScript so I'll try and explain this as best as I can. I've tried searching (web and MR forums) but haven't been able to come up with much... I'm not entirely sure I know how to ask the question so that makes it harder to find what I'm looking for.

I'm writing an AppleScript to use for running video files through a tagging program (Subler). The issue that I have run into is that when I get to the point where the program searches for results, not all video files return a result. For the files that do not return a result, most of the code will be useless (as it walks through subsequent screens that only matter if search results were found) and when it gets to the end - the last few codes triggering the program to save, close the window and quit the program - will not work because the Search dialogue/pop-up window is still displayed. My work-around is to add a line that triggers the Esc button but I would prefer to do it properly/learn about if/else and UI Elements.

I started using UIElementInspector to learn more about writing AppleScript to control specific UI elements as opposed to using a keystroke (like 36 to just hit enter when I know that the button I want is always the one highlighted).

Once I get to the point where the Search dialogue is opened I have a delay of 65 seconds (usually only takes 20-30 to search but I left extra time). There are two buttons that can then be pressed: "Add" and "Cancel".

I want to enter an "if" piece so that if the "Add" button is unavailable (using UIElementInspector I have assumed the relevant value is AXEnabled which is 0 if "Add" is unavailable and 1 if "Add" is available) the Script will click the "Cancel" button and then close the window and quit the program (that last part I can do). Then the "else" part would be if the "Add" button was available, in which case I would then just use the rest of the code that I have that already works.

I have attached the code below with some comments. Please note that I do plan on removing all of the code to simply hit 'return' with code that will instruct the button to click but I have only recently learned that. I'm hung up on this if/else piece and don't even know if it is possible. Please let me know if any other information might help.

tell application "System Events"
 tell process "Subler"
  delay 5
  keystroke "m" using {shift down, command down} <-- opens search box
  delay 65
    tell sheet 1 of window 1 <-- this is where I would like the if/else piece
      tell button "Add"
        click
      end tell
    end tell
  delay 5
  key code 124
  delay 5
  key code 36
  delay 65
  key code 53 <-- this is my temporary solution... hitting escape to 'cancel'
  delay 5
  keystroke "s" using {command down}
  delay 15
  keystroke "w" using {command down}
  delay 5
  keystroke "q" using {command down}
 end tell
end tell

 

[Red Menace]

You can just get the names of all of the buttons of the sheet and look to see if the desired button is in the list. In the following example, I use the full button paths so that the add part of the script can be contained in the if statement (and not in the sheet tell statement):

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Subler"
	delay 5
	keystroke "m" using {shift down, command down} -- opens search box
	delay 65
	tell sheet 1 of window 1 to set theButtons to name of buttons -- get all of the button names
	if "Add" is not in theButtons then
		click button "Cancel" of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process "Subler"
	else
		click button "Add" of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process "Subler"
		-- the rest of the add script
	end if
end tell

 

[JonHimself]

Great, thanks! I'm going to give this a shot (hopefully) tonight.