How to Generate a Text List of all Actions in a Macro

[August]

@Airy

I found difficulties doing that because some apps change the DPI of an image

Do you know which apps to look out for? That seems a hairy problem to debug.

I had some macros that were growing over time, like some I'd created to automate saving Facebook items that I want to respond to later. Facebook would imperceptibly change a graphic element which I had been using to tell, for instance, that I had scrolled to the bottom of a list, so when the macro broke, I would fix it by adding a new capture into the macro as another OR condition, while leaving the older images in place, so that my macro would hopefully work no matter which version of the UI I was given.

Most of the time my Click on Found Image actions are ways to interact with an app's UI. For many of my macros, I think I can eliminate images entirely by using @noisneil's macro:

Create Tell Block for UI Interaction - "UI Browser Lite"

This is a work-in-progress attempt to replicate the functionality of UI Browser that I find most useful. I started work on this last night, and am quite excited about it. It builds on a clever script by @CJK, which returns information pertaining to the UI element under the mouse pointer, and uses this data to automatically create a functioning AppleScript tell block. Usage: Hover your mouse pointer over the element you'd like to interact with and trigger the macro, which comes with its trigge…

I've already used it on the color picker of TextEdit and found it very straightforward to use in generating an AppleScript snippet to click directly on a specific UI element, without having to get KBM to position the mouse at all.