Gui scripting using AppleScript not working

1) I cannot locate any reference to the keystroke command in the website you linked. (yes i did spend about half an hour searching)

The format I used {} is found in almost every sample i have found online so far. (three of the dozens linked below)

Sample1 | Sample2 | Sample3

2) I did try without the {} and it still doesn't work

3) I also tried just passing a keypress ( Keystroke "C") after selecting a cell.

4) I read the support docs on this from apple and cannot get the warning to appear. I have no reference to Script Editor in the security dialogs.

This is what makes me think there is something odd with the system setup. It gives no warning that a program is trying to control the computer. Which is supposed to happen.

What system setting might be supressing the "not allowed assistive access" warning I should be seeing?

Thanks

Jason

The keystroke "C" and keystroke "V" commands do not perform copy and paste

Yeah, I know they don't perform copy/paste.

I was seeing if any keystrokes were being accepted by the system and pushed to the topmost program.

By using Keystroke "C" without modifiers, 'system events' should have 'pressed' the C key and put the letter C in the selected cell. This failed.

I also tried just using the Command C command to copy, then try to paste into another cell manually using the Command V combination on my keyboard. Fail.

With both of those failing, I conclude that no keypresses, modified for keyboard shortcuts or just plain letters being typed, are being processed by the system events.

I understand the process on top is supposed to receive the keypresses, but i was getting nothing, so i put those in to ensure ti was the topmost program (one more thing i was trying to verify, Make sure the proper app is still on top, using gui code didnt activate some other app by accident)

Back to the main thing that seems to be missing....

What system setting might prevent the warning mentioned in the support document linked above, from showing. This seems to be the issue. My system is blocking system events from even being processed and trying to control the machine. If it is blocked completely, then it doesn't matter that i put script editor on the security screen.

Thanks

Jason

I did already set script editor as allowed in security

but i thinking just figured it out.

I removed the subroutines, and converted them into code within the original script (i.e. not use subroutines for copy/paste. just repeat the code every time i need it, which i hate doing but i wanted to make sure it wasn't some applescript format issue) this got a reaction from numbers finally.

BUT it was bringing up the color dialog every time! which is not the same keyboard shortcut. Its Shift-Command C... wait a second....

turns out we both typed a capital C, which keystroke interpreted as Shift C.

When i turn it a lower case c, move all the code back in the main routine, it finally works.

Here is the final code:

on run

tell application "Numbers"

activate

if not (exists document 1) then error number 1000

tell document 1

tell active sheet

set the selectedTable to (the first table whose class of selection range is range)

tell selectedTable

set the selection range to cell 2 of row 3

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Numbers"

keystroke "c" usingcommand down

end tell

end tell

set the selection range to cell 4 of row 3

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Numbers"

keystroke "v" usingcommand down

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end run

thanks for trying so hard for me.

Jason