Clicking application menu items from within an "execute script" action

ComplexPoint · May 4, 2015, 5:34pm

I make a lot of use of Keyboard Maestro’s Select or Show a Menu item actions, but occasionally, if I’m using a JXA (Yosemite JavaScript) script, its useful to be able to click a menu item from inside the script action, rather than exiting one script and then starting another.

Here is a generic JXA JavaScript function which takes the name of an application and a menu path, and performs a menu-item click.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/RobTrew/575111796d0e3bf9bf3a

jxaClickAppSubMenuItem.applescript

// Click an OS X app sub-menu item
// 2nd argument is an array of arbitrary length (exact menu item labels, giving full path)

// e.g. menuItemClick("InqScribe", ['View', 'Aspect Ratio', 'Use Media Ratio'])

// Note that the menu path (spelling & sequence) must be exactly as in the app
// See menuItemTestClick() below for a slower version which reports any errors

// For macOS Yosemite to Sierra

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Clicking application menu items from within an "execute script" action

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