Hi Sorry just read your subject and realized you are trying to select something. What are you trying to select. A line of text, an object? What application are you trying to script?
Regards, Martin Koob > On Sep 5, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Martin Koob via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> 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 >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
