Applescript help (run as application)

Any reason to wrap the Applescript in Automator?

Try saving as an Application in Applescript

You need to show the particular preference window before targeting it:

tell application "System Preferences"
  activate
  reveal anchor "keyboardTab" of pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
  tell tab group 1 of window "Keyboard" of process "System Preferences"
  click checkbox "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys"
  end tell
end tell

Hi red_menace,

My two cents… Your script works even better with line 02 (“activate”) commented out.

Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, then add your application (Untitled for example) to the list of allowed apps:

You need to go into ->System Preferences->Security and Privacy->[Privacy] and then [✓] Allow Access for your App

(You may need to click [+] to add it)

Also note that you may also need to make the script run-only or code-sign it, since regular scripts modify themselves to save globals (which makes them a different application as far as the accessibility goes). See https://support.apple.com/HT202802 for more information.

Why not just save the script as a script and run it from the Script menu ? Much less hassle.