Adding printers via script

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Adding printers via script

Due to great support i find my self here again asking more questions because i wanna learn how to write scripts 🙂

So bassically i work between 2 schools (all mac's) and each school has about 20 printers or so i would like to create a script so all i have to do when i want to add a printer is to enter is IP address of the printer, name and location. Im running into the problem after add printer has activated i cant seem to get it too click the ip bar up the top any feed back would be greatly appricated.
My script so far below

set Ip_address to ""

set printer_name to ""

set Location to ""

set dialog_1 to display dialog "Enter Printer Ip Adress" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1

set dialog_2 to display dialog "Enter Name of Printer" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1

set dialog_3 to display dialog "Enter Location of Printer" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1

set Ip_address to the text returned of dialog_1

set printer_name to the text returned of dialog_2

set Location to the text returned of dialog_3

tell application "AddPrinter" to activate

tell window "Printer Browser"

click button "IP Printer" of tool bar 1

set value of combo box 1 of group 1 of group 1 of group 2 of group 1 to "& Ip_address"

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 28, 2012 8:44 PM

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Pierre L.

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Mar 29, 2012 8:53 AM in response to hoarebags

On Mac OS X 10.7.3, your last lines of code should be written as follows:

tell application "AddPrinter" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell process "AddPrinter"

tell window "Add Printer" -- or “window 1”

click button "IP" of tool bar 1 -- or “button 3”

tell combo box 2 of group 2 of group 1

set focused to 1

set value to IP_address

end tell

(I personally use UIElementInspector 1.4 to help me with GUI Scripting.)

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hoarebags Author

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Mar 29, 2012 4:57 PM in response to Pierre L.

okay cool thanks for the help heaps

now how to i get it to enter in Name and Location
im gathering it is

tell combo box x of group x of group x

set focused to x

set value to printer_name

how to i work out what X is, how do i know which combo box is which and what group they are of ?

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Answer 3

Pierre L.

Level 5

4,635 points

Mar 29, 2012 5:35 PM in response to hoarebags

Have you downloaded UIElementInspector? It's not possible to do any serious GUI Scripting without it (or without a similar tool). So if you haven't yet, go to this web page and click the “Download Sample Code” button at the top of the page. Then open the downloaded UIElementInspector folder. Then move the UIElementInspector.app file to your Applications folder. Then trash the downloaded folder.

UIElementInspector will help you find the answers to the questions you are asking in your last post.

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Answer 4

Pierre L.

Level 5

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Mar 29, 2012 6:05 PM in response to hoarebags

On Mac OS X 10.7.3 (but probably not on Mac OS X 10.6.8), you would enter IP, name and location as follows:

tell application "AddPrinter" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell process "AddPrinter"

tell window 1 -- or “window 1”

click button "IP" of tool bar 1 -- or “button 3”

tell combo box 2 of group 2 of group 1

set focused to 1

set value to IP_address

end tell

delay 1

tell group 1 of group 1

set value of text field 1 to printer_name

set value of text field 2 to printer_location

-- you can't use the reserved word “location”

end tell

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Answer 5

Mar 26, 2014 5:04 PM in response to hoarebags

I am in great need of a full working verion for this script workable on mavericks, it would be greatly appriciated

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Answer 6

Mar 26, 2014 5:05 PM in response to Pierre L.

I am in great need of a full working verion for this script workable on mavericks, it would be greatly appriciated

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