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Lester Magneto

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 7, 2012
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I would like to control/interact with dialog windows that come up during a running application such as

check this box if x,y or z (how do I check the box using Terminal)

click [accepet] if a (how do i click buttons from Terminal)

enter text (how do i enter text into a field)

thanx in advance for patience with a newbie
 
Newbie or not, this is obviously the wrong forum to be asking this…

If you took a second to look at the board, there's a programming forum:
https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/73/

I'm not even sure you can interact with GUI elements from the Terminal via a shell script. Probably with Applescript.
 
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