Scripting a Full Path from Standard Save As… Dialog Box?

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#1

Does anyone know how to specify the full path of a file to be saved from the standard file dialog box? All I’ve come up with is a cludge of scripting “SHIFT-CMD-G”, using image recognition to find the light blue background color for the text, and then scripting a right-click-paste. Any ideas? Thank you.

#2

Post your script so we can see what you’re doing.

#3

Thank you for your reply. I’m getting to the macOS save dialog box via another dialog box, but I don’t that matters here. I’ve commented below to hopefully convey what I’m doing. (Forget the image recognition bit.) I’m stuck where a miracle occurs. :sweat_smile: Thank you again.

-- Open the RX's Export dialog box, and the macOS save dialog box.
tell application "System Events”
	tell process "iZotope RX 10”
		-- Choose "Export"; using the item number because title does not work this item.
		click menu item 10 of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
		delay 0.1
		-- Click the OK button in the Export dialog box. This produces the standard macOS Save dialog.
		click button 2 of group 1 of group 1 of window 1
		delay 0.1
		-- Press the key shortcut to bring up the macOS path selection floating window.
		keystroke "G" using {command down, shift down}
		-- Set the folder path to "~/Documents/"
		-- [A MIRACLE OCCURS]
		-- Set the file name. Use "Window 1" because there are two windows with the same name as the one we want.
		set fileName to a reference to button 8 of group 2 of group 3 of window 1
		tell fileName
			set focused to true
			set value to "Test File"
		end tell
		delay 0.1
		-- Save the file
		click button "Save" of window 1 
	end tell
end tell
#4

Assuming that it’s specifically the Documents folder that you’re after, from within the save/open dialogues, command-shift-O will set its focus to the Documents folder.

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#6

That is amazing - thank you so much! And I can see now how to interact with that text field. Cheers!!!

#7

I had no idea - thank you for the tip!

#9

Thank you again for your continued help!

Could you please explain how the path gets in there? (I’m surprised that Apple doesn’t let you paste in a full path into a file dialog box.)

Also, could you please tell me what a "sheet’ is? (Google keeps showing me Numbers scripting.) When I monitored all the windows in UI Browser, I indeed saw a “sheet” at one point in a group. So, I know it’s real… :sweat_smile:

#13

In the context of Numbers, a sheet is a ‘page’ within a Numbers document. You can find out (a little) more via Script Editor - File - Open Dictionary then choose Numbers and search for ‘sheet’.

A typical AppleScript that uses Numbers might be structured something like this:

tell application "Numbers"
	tell document 1
		tell sheet 1
			-- do stuff
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

It doesn’t look as though the term has any meaning when scripting isotope.

#15

Thank you once again - I understand now. :bulb: