For my application MuteSpotifyAds I wan't to add a feature that automatically enables the Private Session mode.
To do so, I wan't to toggle the menu bar item Private Session in the menu Spotify of the OSX menu bar. I use the following applescript, which works:
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16497564/6286431
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Spotify"
tell menu bar item 2 of menu bar 0
click
click menu item "Private Session" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
The problem is that I have to check if the checkbox is already ticked, because else I would disable the Private Session.
Is there a way to check if the menu checkbox is already ticked?
I've already tried this, but seems to only work for checkboxes in actual windows.
If you have a solution that does not use applescript, that's also good!
The information if the menu item is checked is in the attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" of the menu item
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Spotify"
tell menu bar item 2 of menu bar 1 -- AppleScript indexes are 1-based
tell menu item "Private Session" of menu 1
set isChecked to value of attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" is "✓"
if not isChecked then click it
end tell
end tell
end tell
Related
The menu bar:
The UI Brower:
Apple Script:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "MacID"
click menu item 9 of menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
end tell
end tell
I dont know how to do it with MacID and menu items without Command Shortkeys but here is how to do it with keystroke:
tell application "System Events" keystroke "(key)" using command down
I'd like to AppleScript to click a menu bar icon (not a system process) and then click on one of the menu items. I'm using OS X 10.10.
I've read that I can use the Accessibility Inspector to find the AXDescription of the item, however, I can't find it anywhere in the inspector (in fact none of the items I inspected seemed to have this property).
I also tried the method described here but get an error on line 10:
ignoring application responses
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Webcam Settings"
click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Webcam Settings"
tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
click menu item "Show Webcam Settings Panel" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
System Events got an error: Can’t get menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2 of process "Webcam Settings". Invalid index.
There are some menu bar apps which you can click and show menu with applescript regardless of if they appear in dock.
But I am afraid you can’t access the menubar of “Webcam Settings” with applescript.
Because there isn’t key named “isAccessbiliyFocused” in the attributes.
Menu bar apps you can show their menu with applescript have that key and its value is “Yes”.
I am not quite sure about my answer but as far as I investigate this issue, my answer is probably right.
Sometimes I use PdaNet to tether using my iPhone. The desktop client for OSX is not as rich as the one for windows. One of the chief differences is, that the OSX does not allow to automatically connect to iPhone as soon as the latter is plugged in.
Would you know of a way using Applescript to click on the PdaNet icon on the Menu Bar and then select and click the 'Connect' option on it ?
Here is what the 'PdaNetMac' application's menu bar icon looks like:
I have looked at the following questions but am an applescript newbie and am not sure how to search for PdaNet's icon on the menu bar:
Click menu item on Mac OSX Lion using AppleScript
Applescript: on clicking Menu Bar item via gui script
Accessing dock icon right-click menu items with AppleScript
I have confirmed that 'Enable Access for assistive devices' is enabled.
Based on the second question above, Here is my current attempt at doing this:
ignoring application responses
tell application "System Events" to tell process "PdaNet"
click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "PdaNet"
tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
click menu item "Connect" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
Interestingly, the above script works for me fine when I change PdaNet to Flux.
Thanks!!
You were very close !!
I just downloaded the PdaNet application to test this, and the only edit I had to make to your script was change PdaNet to 'PdaNetMac` ( I was thinking that this is the Process Name and so used the process name displayed in Activity Monitor).
So this works for me:
ignoring application responses
tell application "System Events" to tell process "PdaNetMac"
click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "PdaNetMac"
tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
click menu item "Connect" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
Hope this works for you too !!
(Very useful script, btw. Cheers !)
I'm working on an applescript that clicks menu items in an application menu bar. I'd like to run this script without it displaying the whole process of clicking the target menu item. For example, here's some code below to click the disable for an hour menu item in the menu bar for the F.lux application
ignoring application responses
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Flux"
click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
end tell
end ignoring
do shell script "killall System\\ Events"
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Flux"
tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
click menu item "Disable for an hour" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
How do I go about preventing the display of the gui manipulation when running the this script?
You cannot do this. For AppleScript GUI scripting to work the UI elements must be front and key as they would be for the human.
Using AppleScript I would like to automate the creation of a new user accounts on multiple machines. I'm trying to use UI Scripting and cannot seem to be able to do a click command on the "Add Account" (+) button in the iChat Accounts Preference window. I've tried to use the Accessibility Inspector.app to infer the name of the button but I still cannot seem to access it via AppleScript.
According to Accessibility Inspector.app the button has the following attributes:
AXRole: AXButton
AXRoleDescription: button
AXHelp: <nil>
AXEnabled: YES
AXFocused (W): NO
AXParent: <AXGroup>
AXWindow: <AXWindow:AXStandardWindow>
AXTopLevelUIElement: <AXWindow:AXStandardWindow>
AXPosition: x=225.00 y=462.00
AXSize: w=23.00 h=22.00
AXTitle: <empty string>
AXIdentifier: _NS:27
AXDescription: Add Account
Here is a sample starter AppleScript that will get you to the Accounts Preference window:
tell application "iChat"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iChat"
tell menu bar 1
click menu item "Preferences…" of menu "iChat"
end tell
click button "Accounts" of tool bar 1 of window 1
click button "Add Account" of window "Accounts"
end tell
end tell
end tell
Please note that line 9 is what I'm trying to get working. Below you will find a link to a screenshot of the iChat Accounts Preference window with an arrow pointing to the button that I'm trying to access. Also note that I know that I can just use "keystroke tab" to get to the (+) button, but this will not always work as the number of times you must press tab changes depending on the type of accounts that you already created in iChat.
iChat Account Preferences Window
Not every Ui object has a title, so in those cases you can just use the item number - note that you need to include the entire hierarchy shown in the Inspector window.
tell application "iChat"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iChat"
tell menu bar 1 to click menu item "Preferences…" of menu "iChat"
delay 0.5
tell window 1
click button "Accounts" of tool bar 1
delay 0.5
click button 1 of group 1 of group 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell