macOS Automator noob question

[Manuelrodrigues]

Hi there!

Im writing a short Apple script that wil automate some tasks in my lighting design software tool. Much of the functionality can be reached through simple keyboard shortcuts.

The script looks like this now

activate application "MagicQ"
tell application "System Events"
	keystroke "92**"
	keystroke "c" using {control down}
	keystroke "11"
	keystroke "r"
	--Simulate enter key
	key code 36
	keystroke "x"
	keystroke "s"
	key code 36
	keystroke "name test"
	--Simulate enter key
	key code 36
	delay 1
	keystroke "d"
end tell

The last letter "d" is for delete. Sadly the software does not allow to select the item to be deleted item though a key press. So I need to do a mouse click. I succeeded in generating a mouse click thought a "watch me do" function.
But, because this is only a tiny part of the total number of commands i want to incorporate this click in my script. So I have one document which contains all the info.

To try and integrate the "watch me do" function in my script I imported the watch me do function in the apple script editor and this came up:

-- Click the “<Select & delete mouseclick>” button.
delay 0.050416
set timeoutSeconds to 2.000000
set uiScript to "click UI Element 31 of window \"MagicQ PC (Demo Mode)\" of application process \"MagicQ\""
my doWithTimeout( uiScript, timeoutSeconds )

on doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)
	set endDate to (current date) + timeoutSeconds
	repeat
		try
			run script "tell application \"System Events\"
" & uiScript & "
end tell"
			exit repeat
		on error errorMessage
			if ((current date) > endDate) then
				error "Can not " & uiScript
			end if
		end try
	end repeat
end doWithTimeout

I noticed that the "watch me do" script clicks the following UI element:

set uiScript to "click UI Element [COLOR="red"]31[/COLOR] of window \"MagicQ PC (Demo Mode)\" of application process \"MagicQ\""

Can someone help me to generate a mouse click inside my script to this element?

Hope you can help!

Cheers,

Manuel

 

[kryten2]

I think answer to your question is already in your post eg

click UI Element 31 of window \"MagicQ PC (Demo Mode)\" of application process \"MagicQ\"

Also take a look at UI Browser or Apple's free UIElementInspector (sometimes known as Accessibility Inspector) for al things related to GUI Scripting.

Info : http://pfiddlesoft.com/uibrowser/