AAArrGH: Copy in Safari, paste to texteditor fails

[DutchVince]

Select some text in a web page in Safari copy it and pste it to Texteditor…
Should be simple with UI scripting:

tell application “System Events”
tell process “Safari”
click menu item “Copy” of menu “Edit” of menu bar item “Edit” of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell

tell application “System Events”
tell process “Textedit”
click menu item “Paste” of menu “Edit” of menu bar item “Edit” of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell

Guess what: the text is not even copied! When I go to the Finder and look at the clipboard it contains whatever was there. But NOT my selection!!

Then tried this:

tell application “System Events”
tell process “Safari”
activate
tell window 1 to keystroke “c” using {command down}
end tell
end tell

tell application “System Events”
tell process “Textedit”
activate
tell window 1 to keystroke “v” using {command down}
end tell
end tell

Does not work!!! The copy fails again.
Why on earth is it so difficult to copy some text in one app and paste it into the other???

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[kel]

Hi,

I don’t know if this is it but you have the wrong syntax for ui scripting. Something like this:

tell app “Safari” to activate
tell app “System Events”
tell process “Safari”
– do your keystroke thing
end tell
end tell

Note the placement of the ‘activate’ command.

gl,

[DutchVince]

So I have to activate the app first!
It works!

Thanks gl !