It appears that there's a known bug in the public NSStatusBar / NSStatusItem API that prevents these from being selected by the Accessibility API. At least that's what I'm assuming - see here:
http://openradar.appspot.com/6832098 Granted, this is from 2009, but I'm actually unable to access my application as you indicated below .. I can access the volume control, but when I try to find mine, I can't ... is there any way to list all the menu_extra descriptions that AX can see? That way I can confirm that I'm not just going after the wrong description. Thanks! Brice Ruth, FCD Software Engineer, Madison WI On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Mark Rada <mr...@marketcircle.com> wrote: > Whether or not an app is supported depends on if it implements the > accessibility protocol. All Cocoa applications, including NSStatusBar apps, > do implement this by default. > > However, sometimes the default implementation is not sufficient or is just > buggy. So far, the only places I have had issues is with things in the menu > bar; I have logged bugs with Apple, but only in the last few months and so > they haven't been fixed yet. However, there is nothing stopping you from > overriding the appropriate methods in the NSAccessibility protocol for the > class/object that isn't behaving properly. Customizing accessibility is > supported by Apple; though you usually will only have to override/implement > the protocol if you have a lot of custom UI elements that either directly > subclass from NSView or change the default behaviour a lot. I would check > things out using the Accessibility Inspector first to see how viable > AXElements would be in this case. > > The difficult part about menu bar objects is getting the initial reference > to the object; in a worst case scenario you would have to scan across the > menu bar to find the object (use Accessibility.element_at_position for > various coordinates). Normally, though, you can just get the application > reference, just as you would for an app that uses a window. Here is a short > example for using the standard menu bar items to futz with the volume > slider: > > ui = Accessibility.application_with_bundle_identifier > 'com.apple.systemuiserver' > volume = ui.menu_extra(description: 'system sound volume') > > click volume # this will click the icon so the slider is visible, otherwise > it won't work > > 15.times { decrement volume.slider } > 15.times { increment volume.slider } > > > HTH, > Mark > > > On 2011-09-29, at 11:24 AM, Brice Ruth wrote: > > This looks very useful. I skimmed through the documentation and didn't see > anything for accessing NSStatusBar applications. Is this possible? Or would > I need to add some hooks in my application to allow the test to open the > windows when launched versus via clicking a menuitem from the NSStatusBar > menu? > > Brice Ruth, FCD > Software Engineer, Madison WI > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Mark Rada <mr...@marketcircle.com> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> On behalf of Marketcircle Inc., I am open sourcing a library that I have >> been working on for a while now. AXElements is an alternative to using >> Auotmator or the ScriptingBridge frameworks. AXElements provides more >> generic actions than it's alternatives and should work with almost any Cocoa >> app without needing to be explicitly supported; you can think of it as >> Capybara for desktop apps. >> >> It is meant to be used for automated testing of GUI apps, but can be used >> for general UI automation. You can combine it with testing libraries like >> minitest, Rspec, or macbacon; but there is nothing stopping you from >> combining AXElements with James to voice command some workflows. >> >> The source is available on github and I have put together some small >> tutorails in the documentation. I've also made a beta release to rubygems, >> and will make a proper release soon. To get it now: >> >> macgem install AXElements --pre >> >> And then require 'ax_elements' to get started in macirb or a script. >> >> Source: http://github.com/Marketcircle/AXElements >> Documentation (including some tutorials): >> http://rdoc.info/github/Marketcircle/AXElements/master/frames/file/README.markdown >> >> Cheers, >> Mark Rada >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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