Hi Are you wanting to moved object or a UI element to a new location which you would normally do with a mouse drag? If so the application you are trying to script may have a ‘move' command. Open the dictionary for the application you are scripting in the AppleScript Script Editor application and check whether it has a move command. I just checked and System Events has move in its dictionary as well as Finder and Calendar. Would this achieve what you are trying to do? I haven’t used this command so can’t give you any more info than this but I seems it would work in some cases.
Hope that helps. Regards, Martin Koob > On Sep 5, 2019, at 2:37 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As the title says... > > I had a recollection that it was possible to construct a tool in LiveCode > that would use AppleScript, System Events, and the accessibility framework to > perform actions on another (not naturally scriptable) app. > > I can do menu items, I can do keystrokes - but can I move the mouse? Or more > to the point, can I move the mouse to a location, then click and drag to a > new location? > > Automator appears to be able to do this as a recording, which works once as a > single step - but ever since hangs on playback (amusingly, it moves the mouse > to the first point and then refuses to let it be moved anywhere else - > pulling it back if it is - the only escape seems to be to use the keyboard to > open a terminal and kill Automator). > > Did I dream this, or is it possible? > > TIA, > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
