I’m trying to put together a script for Adium… and it’s success depends on knowing whether the Status menu bar item is enabled or not.
When using an altered version of apple’s Probe Menubar:
tell application "System Events"
get properties
get every process
if UI elements enabled then
tell process "Adium"
get every menu bar
tell menu bar 1
get every menu bar item
get every menu of every menu bar item
end tell
end tell
else
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
display dialog "UI element scripting is not enabled. Check \"Enable access for assistive devices\""
end tell
end if
end tell
The results of this operation end at the “Help” Menu… and don’t indicate if the status menubar item is present or not.
How do I go about probing the Clock-side of the menubar, or if you know how to reference the status item directly, any help would be so much appreciated. Thanks for your time and help.
Thanks for your quick reply, I’ve been trying to get this script to work for sometime now, and to have some assistance is very much appreciated.
I have read the post you directed me toward but am still having issues trying to identify each menu and it’s menu items. I am very new to applescript and obviously have a lot to learn This is the code I’m trying to use:
tell application "System Events"
tell process "SystemUIServer"
repeat with mbi in menu bar items of menu bar 1
get value of attribute of mbi as string
end repeat
end tell
end tell
But this only returns:
“AXMenuBarItemmenu extraAXMenuExtraclock menu extra”
I’m very confused as to where to go from here. Any help, again, would be great.
scripting the SystemUIServer menu bar items is quite tricky
with this script you get a list of all available items, unfortunately some (real) items are displayed as missing value
tell application "System Events"
get value of attribute "AXDescription" of menu bar items of menu bar 1 of process "SystemUIServer"
end tell
I’m getting very close to where I need to be… it’s great to finally see the light on the horizon. I’m curious, are there attributes other than AXDescription? Do you know where I would find a list of these? Thanks again.
I’ve been learning a lot these last few days, and the UI inspector that you showed me helped tremendously, thanks very much.
I’ve found a few inconsistencies in how Adium treats windows and have had to revise my approach. I’m pretty sure I’ve got er nailed, but I am having one last issue with AS. I am trying to evaluated the following:
set theList to {"", "Contacts", "Accounts", "General", "Personal", "Appearance", "Meassages", "Status", "Events", "File Transfer", "Advanced"}
tell application "Adium"
get bounds of every window where name is not equal to every item of theList
end tell
This, unfortunately, returns all the windows including the ones specified in theList
I could do it this way:
tell application "Adium"
get bounds of every window where name is not equal to "Accounts" and name is not equal to "Contacts" and etc....
end tell
But it’s sloppy and bad coding and I’m pretty sure is very inefficient. Any ideas on how to compare one word to a whole list and find out if it doesn’t match?? haha, convoluted I know, but it’s only consistent approach I can find.
