Retrieving all UI Elements from window with Applescript

Hi,

You can use the "entire contents" command, like this :

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setallButtonsto {}

tell application "System Events"

tellprocess"Install Adobe Reader"

with timeout of 0 seconds

set tElements to entire contents of window 2

end timeout

repeat with i in tElements

if class of i is button then set end of allButtons to contents of i

end repeat

end tell

endtell

allButtons

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madhusudhanjr wrote:

actually am implementing Applescripts in Java, the output what we get in Java is not exactly similar to Applescript.. Is their any way to make a list or Array of the above codes output??

Because they are objects.

Here's how to convert these objects in text format :

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setallButtonsto ""

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Install Adobe Reader"

with timeout of 0 seconds

set tElements to entire contents of window 1

end timeout

repeat with i in tElements

if class of i is button then try

i as text

on error err

tell my cleanUpErr(err) to if it is not "" then set allButtons to allButtons & it & linefeed

end try

end repeat

end tell

endtell

allButtons

oncleanUpErr(t)

setoTIDtotext item delimiters

try

settext item delimitersto "«" -- remove description of the error at beginning of the text

set t to "«" & (text items 2 thru -1 of t) as text

settext item delimitersto " of «class pcap»" -- remove 'of process "xxxx" of application "System Events"'

set r to text item 1 of t

settext item delimiterstooTID

returnr -- return object in text format

end try

settext item delimiterstooTID

return ""

endcleanUpErr

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You will get a button to each line (the last line will be empty).

Here is an example of the result :

«class butT» 1 of window "xyz"

«class butT» "bla" of window "xyz"

«class butT» 3 of window "xyz"

«class butT» "OK" of «class scrb» 1 of «class scra» 1 of window "xyz"

Each line is compilable in (osascript or in the Editor) without changing the text even if some of the classes are Raw Code --> «class butT»