After going through some excellent articles on GUI scripting, I decided to give it a try. I have an application which I use to upload files to a server. This application has a Menu bar item called Export which has many options.
When I click an option, a sheet opens where I input file name in a textfield and then click the Upload button on this sheet. A new sheet with progress bar appears. After the upload finishes, another sheet opens which has a Done button. After clicking the Done button, I repeat the steps mentioned earlier to upload again.
I have come up with a little GUI script that works till the point where I can get it to start the Upload process.
I want to enhance this script such that it can run in a repeat loop given a list of file-names to upload.
Here is my attempt:
try
-- bring the target application to the front
set fileNames to {"file1", "file2", "file3", "file4"}
set myListCount to count of items in fileNames
tell application "XYZ"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "XYZ"
repeat with theItem in fileNames
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "Export"
tell menu "Export"
keystroke "T" using {shift down, command down}
tell sheet 1 of window 1
keystroke theItem
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
delay 3
click button "Upload" of sheet 1 of window 1
-- Code to click Done button on the last sheet and resume upload of next file in List
end repeat
end tell
end tell
return true
on error error_message
return false
end try
I want to automate clicking of the Done and then continue the file upload process with the next file in the List. How can I achieve this? How do I make my script aware that the Done button is ready to be clicked and resume the Upload process with next file in the list.
it’s not necessary to address then menu item if you just use the keyboard shortcut.
try
-- bring the target application to the front
set fileNames to {"file1", "file2", "file3", "file4"}
set myListCount to count of items in fileNames
tell application "XYZ"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "XYZ"
repeat with theItem in fileNames
keystroke "T" using {command down} -- same as keystroke "t" using {shift down, command down}
repeat until exists sheet 1 of window 1
delay 0.2
end repeat
tell sheet 1 of window 1
keystroke theItem
delay 3
click button "Upload"
end tell
-- Code to click Done button on the last sheet and resume upload of next file in List
end repeat
end tell
end tell
return true
on error error_message
return false
end try
Is there any UI indicator to press the Done button (visible, enabled, title change)?
I got the loop thing working by adding this small statement:
-- Code to click Done button on the last sheet and resume upload of next file in List
repeat until exists button "Done" of sheet 1 of window 1
--- do nothing
end repeat
delay 2
click button "Done" of sheet 1 of window 1
-- Code to click Done button on the last sheet and resume upload of next file in List
repeat until exists button "Done" of sheet 1 of window 1
delay 0.5
end repeat
click button "Done" of sheet 1 of window 1
Kai Edwards was a prolific and very talented scripter (I have 66 of his gems in my files) and a good Internet friend of Nigel Garvey’s and mine. The article was the last one he wrote with some difficulty because he died of a very painful form of cancer soon after it was finished and I published it. He had frequent very spirited and good-natured jousts with Nigel on these forums from which the rest of us learned a lot. I miss him and I’m sure Nigel does too.
