Somniac and a UI scripting quickie

Just about every time I want an AppleScript to wait a second or two during script execution, I instinctively insert a “sleep x” statement, where x is some small number of seconds. Every time, I’m surprised when I test the script and my computer promptly… goes to sleep. The command to use is delay, not sleep :)

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Here’s a short bit of UI scripting I use to wrangle the MouseZoom prefpane, which I require prior to playing Quake4 to get just the right mouse acceleration curve. Even though it’s just an extra click-and-wait, the whole 32 / 64 bit prefpane shuffle has me kinda annoyed, hence this script.

tell application "System Events"
	tell application "System Preferences"
		activate
		set current pane to pane id "com.benhines.mousezoompp"
	end tell
	delay 1
	tell process "System Preferences"
		click button "OK" of sheet 1 of window "Loading MouseZoom…"
                             --that's an elipsis! accessibility inspector ftw
		delay 2
		keystroke tab
		keystroke tab
		keystroke ".02"
		keystroke tab
	end tell
end tel