FIRST
A big thank you for all the contributions…
Really nice…
i 'm in the begin of my apllescript adventure.
and thank of you i understand more and more.
BUT
i try to make a script in Pro tools app for select the menu by criteria in soundfiled recording.
it’s ok
BUT
the end of the script is very very slow juste to do 3 key code action…
i don’t understand.
maybe you can help me.
here is the script
activate application "Pro Tools"
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Pro Tools"
set window_name to name of front window
-- key code for copy paste
key code 8 using {command down}
key code 41
key code 9 using {command down}
-- click pop up button for track P1
click pop up button 1 of group "P1 - Audio Track " of window window_name
-- type e for select expand channels and by criteria
-- PROBLEM THE SRCIPT VERY VERY LONG TIME TO DO THE NEXT STEP
key code 14
key code 124
key code 36
end tell
end tell
I don’t know what all these keycodes do, but I think it’s better to take them out of the blocks tell process “Pro Tools” and send them directly to “System Events”:
activate application "Pro Tools"
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Pro Tools" to set window_name to name of front window
-- key code for copy paste
keystroke "c" using command down -- Copy of Edit menu
key code 41 -- ";" -- what this does???
keystroke "v" using command down -- Paste of Edit menu
tell application process "Pro Tools"
-- click pop up button for track P1
click pop up button 1 of group "P1 - Audio Track " of window window_name
-- type e for select expand channels and by criteria
end tell
keystroke "e" --- ????
key code 124 -- Right Arrow ---???
keystroke return ----????
end tell
NOTE: I guess, you want use something like this shortcut, but I don’t know what it does:
Hello
thank you for the answer.
i was not really understandable…sorry.
by the way Oliver M solve the problem in another forum.
it’s a problem with pro tools and right click .
and the issue was Cliclick.
here the new script
property cliclickCLIPath : missing value
set cliclickCLIPath to "usr/local/bin/cliclick"
activate application "Pro Tools"
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Pro Tools"
set window_name to name of front window
-- key code for copy paste
keystroke "c" using command down
keystroke "m"
keystroke "v" using command down
-- click pop up button for track P1
tell pop up button 1 of group "temoin - Audio Track " of window window_name
set {xPosition, yPosition} to position
set {xSize, ySize} to size
my cliClick("rc:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
--to make selection in the rght click
key code 14 -- selection letter E in the righ click for go to good selection
key code 124 --right arrow to go to next step in right selection
key code 36 -- enter
end tell
end tell
end tell
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " -r " & coordinate
end cliClick
thank you again for your help.
a rapid question…
what 's the diference in use keystroke “c” and key code 8 ???
now i will try to "organize " my little script to be more efficient
i find that the beginnnig if very slow…
They does the same job, but for the keys which has letter-representation, keystrokes is more human readable. For example, it is easy to keystroke “my dog” in some textfield and you see in the code what it does too. Special symbols you can’t keystroke, so can’t avoid using key code.
Some special symbols however has its AppleScript representations (once again, to be human readable), as AppleScript constants.
This:
key code 14 -- selection letter E in the righ click for go to good selection
key code 124 --right arrow to go to next step in right selection
key code 36 -- enter
As I say above the keystrokes and key codes is the job for System Events and not for process. The process window only should be the frontmost. I have not “Pro Tools” on my Mac, but it is interesting for me if the following script works correct:
tell application "Pro Tools" to activate
tell application "System Events"
-- key code for copy paste
keystroke "c" using command down
keystroke "m"
keystroke "v" using command down
tell application process "Pro Tools" to tell front window
-- click pop up button for track P1
tell pop up button 1 of group "temoin - Audio Track "
set {{xPosition, yPosition}, {xSize, ySize}} to {position, size}
end tell
end tell
end tell
my cliClick("rc:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
tell application "System Events"
--to make selection in the rght click
key code 14 -- selection letter E in the righ click for go to good selection
key code 124 --right arrow to go to next step in right selection
key code 36 -- enter
end tell
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " -r " & coordinate
end cliClick
property cliclickCLIPath : missing value
set cliclickCLIPath to "usr/local/bin/cliclick"
tell application "Pro Tools" to activate
tell application "System Events"
-- key code for copy paste
keystroke "c" using command down
keystroke "m"
keystroke "v" using command down
tell application process "Pro Tools" to tell front window
-- click pop up button for track P1
tell pop up button 1 of group "temoin - Audio Track "
set {{xPosition, yPosition}, {xSize, ySize}} to {position, size}
end tell
end tell
end tell
my cliClick("rc:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
tell application "System Events"
--to make selection in the rght click
key code 14 -- selection letter E in the righ click for go to good selection
key code 124 --right arrow to go to next step in right selection
key code 36 -- enter
end tell
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " -r " & coordinate
end cliClick
ok
i try to do a click with option with clciclick for another action.
but it 's don’t work
i write
my cliClick(“kd:alt” & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & “,” & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
hello
thank you for help but don’t work
Unrecognized action shortcut “52,172”
i think there is another probelm in my script.
right click work but not this.
i will find
Why do you believe,that it doesn’t work? This action is only pressing key “option” DOWN. But to do whole click action you should after some delay release the key sending event KEY UP:
my cliClick("kd:alt" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
delay 0.1
my cliClick("ku:alt" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
Here,
my cliClick(“kd:alt” & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & “,” & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
issue :
error "Invalid key “alt60” given as argument to command “kd”.
The key name may only be one of:
alt
cmd
ctrl
fn
shift" number 1
my cliClick("kd:alt " & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & “,” & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
issue :
error “Unrecognized action shortcut “60,50”” number 1
my cliClick("kd:alt " & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & ", " & yPosition + (ySize div 2))
issue :
error “Unrecognized action shortcut “60,”” number 1
I will search to see if my cliclick file is up to date.
Edit. My version is “cliclick 4.0.1, 2018-04-10”, it’s up to date.
Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 14 décembre 2019 13:56:36
I tested - it works fine. The following opens Extended Menu of my WiFi:
my cliClick("kd:alt")
my cliClick("c:844,10")
my cliClick("ku:alt")
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script "usr/local/bin/cliclick " & coordinate
end cliClick
my cliClick("kd:alt c:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2)) & " ku:alt"
# Your modified handler (without (" -r ")
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " " & coordinate
end cliClick
and with :
my cliClick("kd:alt c:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2)) & " ku:alt"
# The original handler (with (" -r ")
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " -r " & coordinate
end cliClick
Here both behave flawlessly but I don’t know if they do their wanted duty.
Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 14 décembre 2019 15:30:18
hello
thank you for help.
the last version of Yvan looks work…thx
my cliClick("kd:alt c:" & xPosition + (xSize div 2) & "," & yPosition + (ySize div 2)) & " ku:alt"
# The original handler (with (" -r ")
on cliClick(coordinate)
do shell script quoted form of cliclickCLIPath & " -r " & coordinate
end cliClick