As far as I know, the most thorough writeup of GUI Scripting specifically is chapter 28 of the book I co-wrote with Sal Soghoian, "AppleScript 1-2-3", part of the Apple Training Series, published by

My website, and my UI Browser product, are all about GUI Scripting. Which, as you now know, uses the Processes Suite of System Events. You'll find the most detail here:

The tidbits article written by Matt Neuburg is in my opinion the most important as far as understanding what System Events is. Jean-Christophe

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 02:09 am, Bill Cheeseman wrote: There are links and a lot of commentary on my website: http://pfiddlesoft.com. Look at the UI Browser section first, then maybe the frameworks

Greetings to all! We have drafted the first rough draft of the AppleScript Wiki , a great feature provided by groups.io. The Wiki doesn't even have an outline yet, but I wanted to invite each and

G’day scripters. Several days ago I posted here, and also in the Apple forums, that in High Sierra, and after the second last Sierra Security update, zipped disk image files no longer download and

Jean-Christophe, You have made some good points about the "System Events" app (which it really is not). 😉 I have come to think of SE as the AppleScript Swiss Army Knife -- it is a great utility

Thank you all for the replies. I have a much cleared idea of what the thing is intended for! And, yes, ASObjC. I'll need to bite the bullet eventually... Jean-Christophe

If my receiving duplicate messages is my fault, How do I avoid them? Also how do we eliminate duplicate and triplicate footers? Robert Poland Fort Collins, CO

Note that you can do the same trick with any other app, too, not just System Events; i.e., see a live view of whatever app’s properties, classes, etc. The live inspector view, along with the

You’re confusing crossposting with cross-subscribing. In both lists, his posts were on topic. The fact that you got duplicates is your problem.

Phil, Thanks for posting this. This is a huge tip! For those that don't have SD6, or, like me, not sure what Phil is referring to, here's a screen shot of the lower Inspector Panel of SD6, after I

You’re twisting the concept. Anyone on an AppleScript mailing list should expect to get posts about AppleScript. Being on more than one list of the same subject and getting duplicates of the same

Same author. Again, I can only refer you to the Dictionary and reiterate that, in this regard, it’s like any other app. What practical use is there for scripting the Finder, or Numbers? Doesn’t

Thank you Phil. In one of the references that Bill mentioned (Matt Neuburg's TidBits article), there is a very enlightening explanation: http://tidbits.com/static/html/TidBITS-670.html#lnk3 But here,

Before I get spanked for that, I should say “through any OSA-compliant language" (but the only one worth knowing is, of course, AS). It’s oft-mentioned around here, but haven’t seen it mentioned

Cross-posting isn’t an issue here since these are all AppleScript groups, and may not have the same members. As to the question, System Events is an app, like any other app (sort of). It lives

Thank you Bill. Jean-Christophe

There are links and a lot of commentary on my website: http://pfiddlesoft.com. Look at the UI Browser section first, then maybe the frameworks page. -- Bill Cheeseman - wjcheeseman@...

Is there a place that describes what System Events is, how it works, why it is necessary for some sorts of scripting, etc.? Jean-Christophe