I'm using AppleScript to drive some testing I'm doing for PowerPoint generation scripts in another language. Basically what the script does is reload a particular presentation, then close all the panes other than the slide pane so I can get the biggest, most detailed view of the slide I'm generating.
I'm most of the way there, but can't work out how to close the Ribbon at the top of the window.
How do I get a reference to the Ribbon using AppleScript?
This is my script so far:
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
if the name of the active window is "foobar.pptx" then
close the active window
end if
open "foobar.pptx"
set the bounds of the active window to {-1920, 22, 0, 1200}
set the split horizontal of the active window to 0
set the split vertical of the active window to 100
end tell
Try:
activate application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft PowerPoint"
keystroke "r" using {command down, option down}
end tell
end tell
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Is there a way in Applescript to control visibility of a Finder's window "tab-bar" (don't know the english name)?
I know Applescript can get/set statusbar and toolbar visibility, but found nothing of this "tab-bar", the one that let you have multiple tabbed windows).
This AppleScript code works for me using the latest version of macOS Mojave.
tell application "Finder"
activate
delay 0.1
if not (exists of window 1) then reveal desktop
delay 0.1
tell its window 1
activate
repeat until visible
delay 0.5
end repeat
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to key code 17 using {command down, shift down}
end tell
end tell
SIDE-NOTE: This code will not work if your Finder window 1(Frontmost Finder Window) is open with more than one tab already opened
I'm trying to program Alfred to open my Terminal, Sublime Text, and Chrome with a workflow.
I would like for my terminal to open normally as a window, but I've been trying to get Chrome and Sublime to open full screen.
I was able to get Chrome to open up in full screen mode with:
on alfred_script(q)
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell window 1 to enter presentation mode
end tell
end alfred_script
However, this did not translate to work with my Sublime Text.
What am I missing here?
Another way to do this assuming you have not changed the default keyboard shortcut for "Enter Full Screen" is simply to have System Events invoke that shortcut (⌃⌘F). As with the other approach I've seen to doing this (changing the value of AXFullScreen—see mklement0's answer here for a thorough discussion of this method), this requires making the relevant window active.
For instance, to toggle the full-screen state of the frontmost window in Safari, run:
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {command down, control down}
end tell
As found here (i need an applescript to open safari in full screen an to hide the toolbar on mavericks). The make new document line prevents the can't get window 1 error by opening a new tab if one has not previously been opened.
tell application "Safari"
make new document
activate
delay 3
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true
end tell
end tell
I'm trying to open a messaging application (it does not have an Apple Script Dictionary (command + shift + o)), click on text, and type into the text box, and hit send.
Pop up: Script Error - Telegram got an error: Can't continue click after the application becomes active.
Result Tab: error "Telegram got an error: Can’t continue click." number -1708
P.S., The messaging application is Telegram.
Apple Script:
tell application "Telegram"
activate
delay 1
click on text "chat name"
keystroke "some text"
//assuming this works because text box is the first responder when the chat opens.
click on text "Send"
end tell
If an application lacks an AppleScript dictionary, any command except the standard commands launch, activate, open, reopen and quit will throw an error.
The solution is GUI scripting: The built-in application System Events is the bridge to send mouse clicks and keyboard events to the target application.
I don't know the application Telegram at all, so this code might fail, but it might also be a starting point
activate application "Telegram"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Telegram"
tell window 1
keystroke "some text"
click button "Send"
end tell
end tell
end tell
You have two choices for a 3rd party app that lacks an AppleScript dictionary.
Option 1:
Use System Events as described above to perform an action on an element, e.g. click a button, keystroke text into a field, etc. The trick is to identify the element in syntax that is recognized by Applescript. Besides UIElementInspector mentioned above, which can be confusing and occasionally wrong/incomplete, you can also run the following commands in a separate Applescript Editor. For example, to get all UI elements for the active window (window 1) in Telegram:
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Telegram" to tell window 1
UI elements
end tell
To get all UI elements for the main menu bar in Telegram:
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Telegram" to tell menu bar 1
UI elements
end tell
In each case the Result pane will display a comma delimited list of all available UI elements in that window or menu bar. Moreover, the syntax as listed is guaranteed to be recognizable by Applescript. Just identify the correct element and tell System Events to tell it what to do.
For example if you want to click the Menu item "Format" In TextEdit first run the following:
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "TextEdit" to tell menu bar 1
UI elements
end tell
Among the results in the Result pane will be the following:
menu bar item "Format" of menu bar 1 of application process "TextEdit" of application "System Events"
Convert that to Applescript, run the script and it will click the "Format" Menu:
tell application "TextEdit" to activate --you need TexEdit up and running to click its menu bar
tell application "System Events" to click menu bar item "Format" of menu bar 1 of application process "TextEdit"
For submenus, etc. you just iterate the process asking for UI elements for the submenu. GUI scripting is iterative and empirical.
Option 2:
Download the free Terminal/Command Line app cliclick which allows you to click on any point in the screen. The screen coordinates you want to click can be manually identified with your cursor by holding down command + shift + 4.
Basically my goal is to code a key command (option-s) to activate Stickies and create a new note. Right now I have an Alfred 2 generated Automation which links the hot key to the following script:
on alfred_script(q)
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay .2
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay .01
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "n" using command down
end tell
end alfred_script
The two activate commands are my attempt to deal with a bug where it opens the application, but doesn't bring it to front. It works seamlessly when the application is open in the background, but it's slow and creates a screen flash when the application isn't already running. The delay is not coming from the application itself because I can open the application and hit command-n as fast as possible, and it always works.
(By the way if you have an idea for how I could hide all other notes and just show the new one, that would be awesome!)
Try this:
launch application "Stickies"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Stickies"
click menu item "New Note" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
set frontmost to true
end tell
If you run the script by pressing option-s, there might not be enough time to release option before keystroke "n" using command down.
Or this doesn't raise the windows for other notes:
launch application "Stickies"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Stickies"
click menu item "New Note" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
do shell script "open -a Stickies"
activate app "Appname" and set frontmost of "Appname" to true raise all windows, but do shell script "open -a Appname" raises only one window.
Hotkeys also have a short delay by default in Alfred, but you can reduce it by changing the trigger behavior:
You could try this alternate way, might have a different effect.
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Stickies"
set frontmost to true
keystroke "n" using command down
keystroke "Hello World" & linefeed & "I'm a new note!"
end tell
end tell
Hiding all other notes, i'd say start a new question for that.
I am trying to make an integrated presentation for my students.
System: OS X Lion 10.7
For that I need to show a foreground window running a 3D presentation which is remotely controlled by a command line on another screen.
Besides it I would like to show a small set of PDF slides behind it.
I need some way of "remote controlling" the backgrounded PDF Viewer (Adobe Reader or PDFView) to accept simple commands like
Go to Page x (ideally)
Go to first page (home button)
Go to next page (arrow down, arrow right, page down or scroll down will all do)
I prefer to run the PDF in Adobe Reader fullscreen mode (allows me to background it and overlay another window on top, but PDFView could do too.
I have tried various Applescripts (run with osascript), but with no success:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Adobe Reader"
tell window "starkdemo.pdf" to key code 125
end tell
end tell
sends key down to my terminal
tell application "/Applications/Adobe Reader.app"
tell active pane of active window
large scroll down 1
end tell
end tell
gives me an error 63:69: script error: Expected end of line but found class name. (-2741)
I have found that the free Viewer Skim has extensive AppleScript scripting http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/skim-app/index.php?title=AppleScript
It also have the fullscreen view that I like. So I will be using this in the future. Also the applescript command is just one line:
tell document "starkdemo.pdf" of application "Skim" to go to page 7
Try:
activate application "Adobe Reader"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Adobe Reader"
click menu item "Full Screen Mode" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1
delay 2
key code 125
delay 2
keystroke space
delay 2
end tell
end tell
Or try this with Acrobat Pro
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
tell PDF Window 1
read page down
end tell
end tell
Or
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
tell PDF Window 1
goto page 3
end tell
end tell