My system is used for home automation and I use apllescript to do a lot of the process. Applescript applications (app) that use the system events click at is not working. The click at line is used to click at certain points on my screen to control applications that can not be scripted. What is the fix for this issue?
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
For example:
tell application "System Events"
try
tell application process "Safari"
delay 3
clickat {950, 895} -- Click "Live Video button"
end tell
end try
end tell
Thanks
The System Events click command doesn't necessarily send an event that is usable in the way you want.
You can use the do javascript command for a Safari document, or for a more general purpose utility there is cliclick.
"click at" was is listed in the Applescript Libary suite. Is this a Bug? This "upgrade" has been vey painful if this function is lost and I will be forced to move back to moutain lion. What are the steps for be to just DUMP Maverick and go back. I have lost function in over 300 applescript apps that have been written! Time is important here........
This example worked before the "upgrade".
tell application "System Events"
try
tell application process "Safari"
delay 3
clickat {950, 895} -- Click "Live Video button"
end tell
end try
end tell
At this point I'm so unhappy with the upgrade that I can't even discribe in the format!
In the System Events.sdef the term click reads;
click v : cause the target process to behave as if the UI element were clicked
click [UI element] : The UI element to be clicked.
[at list] : when sent to a "process" object, the { x, y } location at which to click, in global coordinates
→ UI element
Why has this changed with Maverick? 😟 😟 😟
Why does key code, keystroke work byt not the click at screen coordinates?
This problem also occurs with named Applescript elements. I have a script which calls
click (pop up buttons of sheet 1 of window 1 whose description is "Presets")
It worked fine in 10.8 but fails in Mavericks, saying the pop up button doesn't understand click.
You could look at Cliclick and XTool:
Cliclick links:
XTool-2.0 - AppleScript example - click mouse{300,400}
A bit late but anyway. This seems to be the solution. It worked för my scripts with "click".
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=42091
See Yvan Koenings answers.
You must always have a number: splitter group 1, group 1 or first splitter group or first group, button 1 whose description is... etc
In Snow Leopard it worked with "group of splitter group of window 1" etc
In Maverick it must be "group 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1"
If it is the first group or splitter group of course
Fred
applescript click at not working
