How to find an input box in an application window and enter some text? The use case is whenever an application starts (which I can trigger it by "This application" trigger), I want to the macro look for a specific input box, and enter some text if found that input box. Thanks.

Often the TAB key can used be moved from one field to the next field (input box to input box) in a dialog such as you see. You can experiment to see it that is the case in this instance. Often Shift-TAB allows you to move back up a field. So the KM script might be something like. Insert Text by …

It's difficult to advise you without knowing more specifics, and it may depend on the app and the input field. If you launch the app and the input box appears, can you type into it, or do you have to click on it first? Is it a standard macOS window, or something else? If you were going to describe…

Put KM into record mode, and then see what it does. This can often be improved on, but it should get you going Tip: Have another window open with a new doc in Textedit, then at various stages, type something in that window. These will act as "milestones"

Thanks for the response. It is a login window for Cisco AnyConnect. See screenshot. It seems it appears in different position of the screen (which I can't find the pattern. What I want to do is that once this window appear, enter my Username in the first box and enter "PUSH" in the third box, then …

This works perfectly, thank you!

[image] rlivingston: One thing to note with mouse clicking, there is a way to specify as location relative to the upper left corner of the front-most window . It is one of the selectable options. Then if the dialog window that you describe is considered the frontmost window, you do not have to w…

I don't think there is a direct way to get coordinates from the window corner, however you can use the "Mouse Display" to show the values of the mouse position. Put your cursor at the top left of the window in question and make a note of the mouse position values. Then move to where you want Keyboa…

[image] henryone: To use this method, is there any tool I can find the relative location (in pixels) from the upper corner of the window? The Click Mouse action can click relative to any corner of the front window or any corner of the main screen. Alternatively, you can use the WINDOW or SCR…

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Have a look at this post TIP: How to Use the macOS ScreenShot Tool as a Screen Ruler which should help you out.

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