I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. Do you want the dialogue or did
you want the output would you want to be able to have a choose?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:02 PM Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks again for this.
> I’ve got it set up to work with a VO hot key, but how can I get it to
> display in a dialog box or to just read out the next song?
>
> Des Delgadillo
> Reporter
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>
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 6:57 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you put the script into script editor and click play you should get a
> dialog asking you to launch System Preferences.
>
> You need to go into the Security and Privacy panel then click on Privacy.
>
> In the Privacy tab is a table where one of the items is accessibility. You
> should see in the other table that Script Editor has asked for
> accessibility access, and you need to check the box next to System
> Preferences. I can give you more secure way where only this specific script
> has accessibility access not all scripts, but this is the easiest way.
>
> Also, since I used the
> tell application "VoiceOver" to output the SongName, you need to also make
> sure the t allow Apple Script to control VoiceOver is checked.
>
> ,
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Des Delgadillo <desdelgadi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
> Sorry for the delay in responding.
> Thank you for the script. Getting the song information in a dialogue box
> would be fine, it would even be ok if VO just read out the song title
> without displaying a dialogue.
> I have limited scripting knowledge but I will try to run this script
> today. Can I just copy and paste the text of your script into the script
> editor?
> Thanks again for doing this.
>
> Des Delgadillo
> Reporter
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>
> On Apr 22, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a preliminary version of this script working using the
> Accessibility API. What this means is that an administrator needs to
> authorize either the script editor application or an application created
> from the script in order for this script to run.
>
> Right now I have it use VoiceOver to speak the name of the next song.
> There is also a string that returns the Artist and Album.
>
> To the person that was requesting this, what was the final requirement? Do
> you want the information in a dialog box? Should it run just once, or be
> checking on regular intervals to see if the up next has changed?
>
> Perhaps you want me to attempt to insert the information into a Numbers
> sheet.
>
> Text of script so far is below: note, I believe at least one of the
> handlers is not being used.
> note 2 I put the UI Elements being accessed as properties at the top of
> the script.
>
> *use* *application* "System Events"
> *use* *scripting additions*
>
> *property* miniPlayerWindow : *a reference* *to* *window* "miniplayer"
> *of* *application process* "iTunes"
> *property* ToggleButton : *a reference* *to* *pop up button* 2 *of*
> miniPlayerWindow
> *property* UpNextRadioButton : *a reference* *to* *radio button* "Up
> Next" *of* *radio group* 1 *of* miniPlayerWindow
> *property* ScrollRegion : *a reference* *to* *scroll area* 1 *of*
> miniPlayerWindow
> *property* NextSongItem : *a reference* *to* *static text* 1 *of* *UI
> element* 1 *of* *row* 1 *of* *table* 1 *of* ScrollRegion
> *property* NextAlbumItem : *a reference* *to* *static text* 2 *of* *UI
> element* 1 *of* *row* 1 *of* *table* 1 *of* ScrollRegion
>
> *on* *run*
> -- find the mini player or create it
> ActivateMiniPlayer()
> *if* description *of* ToggleButton *is not* *equal to* "hide up next"
> *then*
> *error* "Who are we kidding, this should be the button. Perhaps iTunes
> changed the arrangement"
> *end* *if*
>
> *if* value *of* UpNextRadioButton = 0 *then* -- Up next needs to be
> selected
> *click* UpNextRadioButton
> *end* *if*
>
> -- make sure information is visible
> *set* ScrollSize *to* size *of* ScrollRegion
> *if* *second* *item* *of* ScrollSize *is* *equal to* 0 *then* -- hight =
> 0
> *click* ToggleButton
> *end* *if*
>
> *set* Song *to* value *of* NextSongItem
> *set* ALbum *to* value *of* NextAlbumItem
> VoiceOverSpeech(Song)
> *return* Song & ALbum
> *end* *run*
>
> *on* VoiceOverSpeech(myText)
> *tell* *application* "VoiceOver" *to* *output* myText
>
> *end* VoiceOverSpeech
> *on* ActivateMiniPlayer()
> *set* iTunesRunning *to* *my* ActivateIfRunning:"iTunes"
> *if* *not* iTunesRunning *then*
> *error* "You must be running iTunes for this script to work."
> *end* *if*
> *tell* *application* "iTunes"
> *if* (*not* (*exists* *miniplayer window* 1)) *then*
> *make* new *miniplayer window*
> *end* *if*
> *end* *tell*
> *return* {}
> *return* *window* "MiniPlayer" *of* *application process* "iTunes"
> *end* ActivateMiniPlayer
>
>
> *on* appWithName(appName *as* {*text*, *application*})
> *set* c *to* *class* *of* appName
> *if* c *is* *equal to* *application* *then*
> *return* appName
> *else* *if* c *is* *equal to* *text* *then*
> *return* *application* appName
> *end* *if*
> *end* appWithName
>
>
> *on* ActivateIfRunning:appName
> *try*
> *set* frontmost *of* *application process* appName *to* *true*
> *set* Success *to* *true*
> *on* *error*
> *set* Success *to* *false*
> *end* *try*
> *return* Success
> *end* ActivateIfRunning:
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
>
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