Some Questions on the Amazing New Press Button and Named Menu

[noisneil]

@peternlewis

The Button condition can check button states and uses the same system.

@peternlewis

Probably. ish. The system uses a fair amount of complexity to discover the name/description of the button.

Did you see this? Are you doing something similar in the background? I'm guessing not, this uses a fair amount of text manipulation.

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…

@peternlewis

The Select Menu by Name action is a completely different thing, it is a UI for selecting menu items.

And it's brilliant! No need for Cheatsheet/KeyCue now.