Can We Use KM Variable with Action "Select or Show a Menu Item"?

[ccstone]

Hey Michael,

Here's the skinny:

How do I use a variable in a regex?

The Select Menu Item action does not process text tokens. There are a number of dubious options: If it is a small set of different menus, use a sequence If Then Else actions to select the desired hard coded Select Menu Item action. If it is a small set of different menus, use a regular expression that matches all of them (eg ^(One|Two|Three)$). Use AppleScript UI scripting instead of the Select Menu Item action. Hand craft the Select Menu Item action XML, and use AppleScript do script to the …

I remembered this post but couldn't find it on the board due to the mediocre search, but Google was my friend:

menu AND variable site:http://forum.keyboardmaestro.com

Second link down.

You can do this by resorting to System Events & UI-Scripting:

set topLevelMenu to "Window"
set subMenuItemOne to "Macro Library"

tell application "System Events"
  tell application process "Keyboard Maestro"
    tell menu item subMenuItemOne of menu 1 of menu bar item topLevelMenu of menu bar 1
      if enabled then
        click
      else
        beep
      end if
    end tell
  end tell
end tell

But UI-Scripting is not for the faint of heart. I bought UI Browser long ago to save my hair.

-Chris