After building an applescript code, I got this error. error "Can’t get keystroke \"2\"." number -1728 from keystroke "2" and I don't know what it means, or how to fix it. My code is supposed to ask the question, open stickies, and then type the returned text into the box. My code below works until keystroke a on line 5. Anyone know the problem? This has been annoying me so long now, and I would appreciate any help.
set a to text returned of (display dialog "What is your name?" with title "Yo name" with icon 2 default answer "" buttons {"Continue…"} default button 1 giving up after 25)
(...)
delay 1
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay 1
keystroke a
keystroke space
(...)
You need to tell System Events to keystroke it, here is your new code!
set a to text returned of (display dialog "What is your name?" with title "Yo name" with icon 2 default answer "" buttons {"Continue…"} default button 1 giving up after 25)
delay 1
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
keystroke a
keystroke space
end tell
Use the using command down in the keystroke, Here:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "+" using command down
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I have a problem with my application, I want AppleScript to type "date" in Terminal:
(
activate application "Terminal"
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "date"
keystroke return
end tell
)
It works, but if the language of my keyboard is set to Russian, my app types "####" instead of "date". How to make AppleScript always use the English keyboard mapping?
If you have to send a string to the cursor/insertion point, you can avoid the keystroke command by storing the string on the clipboard and then pasting it.
tell application "Terminal" to activate
set theString to "date"
set the clipboard to theString
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal"
tell menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
click menu item "Paste" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
delay 0.1
You should also explore sending a command to the terminal window as a command. Tell a Terminal window to do script.
tell application "Terminal"
activate
set thisWindow to do script "echo 'hello world'" in window 1
do script "echo 'goodbye all'" in thisWindow
end tell
You didn't give enough details of what you're doing to know how best to solve your problem.
"Clear buffer" is a menu option under Iterm2's "Edit" menu (command-K) . I'd like to script this to clear Iterm's buffer.
I've tried, based on another site's suggestions,
tell theSession
select
tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm2"
click menu item "Clear Buffer" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu
bar 1
end tell
end tell
I've also tried
tell theSession
select
tell application "System Events"
delay 0.1
keystroke "L" using command down
end tell
end tell
Neither seems to do anything. Any ideas?
Tested under macOS 10.13.5 using iTerm2 Build 3.1.7, the default keyboard shortcut for the Clear Buffer command is ⌘K, as shown in the image below.
The following example AppleScript code will activate iTerm, and act on the frontmost window to clear the buffer:
tell application "System Events"
click UI element "iTerm" of list 1 of application process "Dock"
delay 0.25
try
keystroke "k" using command down
end try
end tell
Or use:
tell application "iTerm" to activate
delay 0.25
tell application "System Events"
try
keystroke "k" using command down
end try
end tell
Note that lowercase k is used even though the menu shows an uppercase K. If you have modified the Clear Buffer keyboard shortcut to use ⌘L, then use a lowercase l.
hi im working on a simple router cracker and this part won't compile (this is for searching the router ip so you can find its service provider) (if you get it)
tell application "Safari"
activate
open location "http://www.techspot.com/guides/287-default-router-ip-addresses/"
keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
set search to text returned of (display dialog "router ip" default answer "" buttons {"cancel", "find it"} default button 2)
search
keystroke "enter" using {command down, shift down}
As DigiMonk said, the keystroke command is provided by System Events. You can also use UI scripting to fill the search field:
tell application "Safari"
activate
open location "http://www.techspot.com/guides/287-default-router-ip-addresses/"
set search to text returned of (display dialog "router ip" default answer "")
end tell
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using command down
tell process "Safari"
tell group 1 of group 1 of window 1
set value of text field 1 to search
click button 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
relating to this post, https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/70585/applescript-opens-new-window-for-everything-when-run.
I wonder if i can highlight the selected text and run this service, can i have the selected text in the new tweet textbox?
Here's the current codes:
activate application "Tweetbot"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Tweetbot"
repeat until exists
delay 0.4
end repeat
set frontmost to true
delay 0.2
keystroke "n" using command down
end tell
end tell
http://i.stack.imgur.com/aahdK.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/pHtkX.png
You can pass the selected text as a variable in Automator and use UI scripting to set the contents of the text field.
on run {input, parameters}
activate application "Tweetbot"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Tweetbot"
keystroke "n" using command down
set value of text area 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1 to (input as text)
end tell
end run
If you run the script with a shortcut that has other modifier keys than command, try replacing keystroke "n" using command down with click menu item "New Tweet" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Tweet" of menu bar 1.
Im using system events to control a program that does not have a applescript library.
I am therefor using system events to control it.
I have gotten the program to open a pop up window for it Open File interface and I would like to get it to default to a certain location. Is this possible.
So Far I have :
tell application "App Name"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "App Name"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
tell menu item "Import"
tell menu "Import"
click menu item "XML..."
delay 4
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
The pop up window defaults to its own last visited location. I would like it to default to a given file path like /Users/userabc/Documents/abcd.XML
Thanks
If you have the "posix path" of a location and the dialog box open, you can do the following. Note that the location can be a folder or a file path. If it's a file path then that file will be selected and you would then just have to "keystroke return" to close the dialog box and open that file. Good luck.
set theLocation to path to home folder
set posixLocation to POSIX path of theLocation
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "g" using {command down, shift down}
delay 0.5
keystroke posixLocation
delay 0.5
keystroke return
end tell
The only problem with this method is that autocorrect starts filling in as apple script types into the text box and screws everything up. Work around is to copy/paste into from applescript.
The keystroke command doesn't work for inserting characters that can't be inserted with the current input source. And it doesn't work at all with some input sources.
You could also set the value of the text field:
tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
keystroke "g" using {shift down, command down}
tell window 1
tell sheet 1
set value of text field 1 to "/usr/share/dict/connectives"
click button 1
end tell
click button "Open"
end tell
end tell