System Events - "click menu item..." in QuarkXpress not working

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#1

Hi dear scripters!

I’m testing a script to “click” menu options in QuarkXpress. It works ok when I run from AppleScript Editor, but when I save the script in to QuarkXpress and execute from there,the application hangs with the spinning wheel.

This is the script:


tell application "QuarkXPress" to activate
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "QuarkXPress"
		click menu item "Save Revision to Server..." of menu "File" of menu bar 1 -- Save changes to QPP sever
		click button "OK" of window "Save Revision" -- Press Ok button in confirmation dialog
		click menu item "Discard Changes" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 -- Close and release file in QPP server
	end tell
end tell

In addition I have to say that I’m trying to “click” menu options that comes from the installed Quark Publishing Platform Client inside QuarkXpress, but I tested with native Quarkxpress menu items with same results.

Any idea? Thanks

#2

Hi jarchscript,

What version of Quark are you using?

Thanks.

#3

Oops sorry for missing that information. I’m using QuarkXpress 10.5.2 with Quark Publishing Platform Client 10.5. Mac OS X 10.9.5
Thanks.

#4

May you try with this slightly modified code :

tell application "QuarkXPress" to activate
tell application "System Events"
   tell process "QuarkXPress"
set frontmost to true # ADDED
       click menu item "Save Revision to Server..." of menu "File" of menu bar 1 -- Save changes to QPP sever
       click button "OK" of window "Save Revision" -- Press Ok button in confirmation dialog
       click menu item "Discard Changes" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 -- Close and release file in QPP server
   end tell
end tell

Yvan KOENIG running El Capitan 10.11.1 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 3 novembre 2015 18:42:58

#5

Thank you Yvan.
I tried the modified code with same previous results.
Works ok when launched from AppleScript Editor but lauched within QuarkXpress hangs the application. No idea what would be happening.

#6

Isn’t it the instruction :
tell application “QuarkXPress” to activate
which is the culprit ?

Yvan KOENIG running El Capitan 10.11.1 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 3 novembre 2015 19:36:26

#7

Nope. I removed that line with no changes (still working from AS Editor).
I also added :
click menu item “Save Revision to Server…” of menu “File” of menu bar item “File” of menu bar 1

instead of :
click menu item “Save Revision to Server…” of menu bar item “File” of menu bar 1

No changes :frowning:

#8

AppleScripting QuarkXPress sometimes lead to such behaviours. Since several years now, on a friend’s advice, I run scripts from a third party top bar menu (FastScripts Light). Worth a try.