Re: AppleScript Question(s)

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: AppleScript Question(s)
Date	2020-12-01 17:22 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2020-12-01, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2020-11-30 07:43:57 +0000, Krzysztof Mitko said:
>> gtr wrote:
>>> 
>>> Great stuff, thanks!
>>> 
>>> From your first example, Optima Regular, size 20 will do it.  But
>>> I'm curious about the "system events" example.  It pops up the font
>>> selector, seemingly the second button. Is there no way to access the
>>> "styles" button?
>> 
>> Yes, with following code:
>> 
>> tell application "System Events" to tell process "TextEdit"
>> 	click menu button 1 of group 1 of front window
>> 	click menu item 9 of menu 1 of menu button 1 of group 1 of front window
>> end tell
>
> Worked perfectly. Many thanks.

Yes, but it's a bad idea. Again, user interface scripting should be a
*last resort*.  TextEdit has built-in AppleScript commands for adjusting
text properties.

With user interface scripting, if the user happens to move the mouse,
open an app or document, or anything else while the script is running,
the script can click the wrong thing or modify the wrong data. That
cannot happen when you use built-in AppleScript commands instead.

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AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-29 17:41 -0800
  Re: AppleScript Question(s) Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-30 05:20 +0000
    Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-29 23:16 -0800
      Re: AppleScript Question(s) Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-11-30 07:43 +0000
        Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-30 18:04 -0800
          Re: AppleScript Question(s) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-12-01 17:22 +0000
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-01 16:30 -0800
              Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-02 02:00 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-01 18:57 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-12-01 21:35 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-01 22:00 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-01 22:01 -0800
        Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-05 11:04 -0800
          Re: AppleScript Question(s) Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2020-12-05 19:31 +0000
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-05 22:23 -0800
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-06 09:55 -0800
              Re: AppleScript Question(s) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-12-06 18:39 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-06 12:18 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-12-07 17:16 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-07 10:14 -0800
          Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-06 00:21 +0000
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-05 22:24 -0800
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-06 09:44 -0800
              Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-06 21:13 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-06 19:09 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-07 04:57 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-06 22:09 -0800
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-07 06:54 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-12-07 17:24 +0000
                Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-12-07 10:16 -0800
      Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 13:28 +0000
        Re: AppleScript Question(s) Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-30 12:56 -0800
          Re: AppleScript Question(s) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 22:42 +0000
            Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-30 18:05 -0800
        Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-30 17:59 -0800
  Re: AppleScript Question(s) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-30 17:37 +0000
    Re: AppleScript Question(s) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-30 18:05 -0800

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