{"id":175,"date":"2010-08-04T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-08-04T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T04:20:37","slug":"somniac-and-a-ui-scripting-quickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/175","title":{"rendered":"Somniac and a UI scripting quickie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 :)<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

tell application \"System Events\"\r\n\ttell application \"System Preferences\"\r\n\t\tactivate\r\n\t\tset current pane to pane id \"com.benhines.mousezoompp\"\r\n\tend tell\r\n\tdelay 1\r\n\ttell process \"System Preferences\"\r\n\t\tclick button \"OK\" of sheet 1 of window \"Loading MouseZoom\u2026\"\r\n                             --that's an elipsis! accessibility inspector ftw\r\n\t\tdelay 2\r\n\t\tkeystroke tab\r\n\t\tkeystroke tab\r\n\t\tkeystroke \".02\"\r\n\t\tkeystroke tab\r\n\tend tell\r\nend tel<\/pre>\n
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