Can System Events tell delicious2safari to click its own button?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

I’m trying to write a simple applescript that can interact with the delicious2safari user interface. The current distribution of delicious2safari does not automatically sync your delicious bookmarks with Safari, like the delicious add-on for Firefox does. If you want to keep your bookmarks on Safari up-to-date, you have to run delicious2safari each time you change your delicious bookmarks. I want automate the process of interacting with the application so I can set up a schedule in iCal to handle it for me.

Here’s what I have:

launch application "delicious2safari"

tell application "System Events"
	tell window "delicious2safari"
		click button "Get my bookmarks!"
	end tell
end tell

I run it, and System Events gets this error: “NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4” which I understand means that it probably can’t even find the button “Get my bookmarks!”

Any suggestions?

Model: MacBook
AppleScript: 1.10.7
Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.11
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)

#2

Hi,

first: the application to talk to must be frontmost, so launch isn’t sufficient.
second: the UI element are always parts of the process of the application

I don’t use delicious2safari, but try this


activate application "delicious2safari"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "delicious2safari"
		tell window "delicious2safari"
			click button "Get my bookmarks!"
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
#3

Nope. Same error.

#4

I’ve just downloaded it.
It’s this

activate application "delicious2safari"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "delicious2safari"
		click button "Get my bookmarks!" of group 1 of window "delicious2safari"
	end tell
end tell
#5

Works like a charm. Thanks very much.

If you don’t mind one more question: why do we need to specify group 1 of the window?

#6

Because the author added a tab view UI element in the main window, although it’s actually not needed.