AppleScript to Reveal Keyboard Shortcut System Preferences

Questions & Suggestions
#1

The top AS to open the 'Text' tab of the Keyboard Prefs works. When I try the one below to open 'Shortcuts' it fails.

Aren't they the same, just different?
(These are not part of a macro)
(Using Monterey)

Thanks for your help.

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#2

Hey Steve,

This is because Apple delights in screwing with you...

Run this in Apple's Script Editor or preferably Script Debugger.

(Note – the commercial version of SD reverts to a freeware "lite" version after a demo period, and this is still waaay more powerful than the ASE.)

tell application "System Preferences"
   tell pane "Keyboard"
      anchors
   end tell
end tell

Note the names of the anchors...

-Chris

#3

If I'm following this, then @Steve_E needs to change the name of the anchor from "Shortcuts" (which would be totally consistent naming with "Text") to "shortcutsTab" (which is inconsistent in two different ways), right?

#4

Thanks Apple (scoffing)

And a real thanks to you Chris. What a naming mishmash. I think my Open Prefs Palette will be a success now.

P.S. I already like Script Debugger

#5

Apple has taken this to a new level with macOS Ventura. :scream:

In Ventura, this yields:

error "System Settings got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000

Note: In Ventura, the above script gets automatically changed to:

tell application "System Settings"
	tell pane "Keyboard"
		anchors
	end tell
end tell

I was first aggravated by these changes* when I discovered that the macro Set Sound Output was no longer working with Ventura.

*Actually, that's not true. I was first aggravated by these changes when I opened the System Settings application after "upgrading" to Ventura. :poop:

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