[TxMt] Re: Control TM with AppleScript?

Jacob Rus jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
Wed Dec 6 17:54:31 UTC 2006


Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
> 
> I googled for it but I didn't find the correct answer.
> 
> Is it possible to control TM via AppleScript à la
> 
> 
> tell app "TextMate"
>     activate
> end tell
> tell app "System Events"
>     tell process "TextMate.app"
>         tell menu bar 1
>             tell menu bar item "Help"
>                 tell menu "Help"
>                     click menu item "Release Notes"
[...]

Please take a look in the TextMate AppleScript bundle for the "Select 
Menu Item with UI Scripting" snippet, and take a look at [this][1] hint 
to macosxhints.com, before you write such gross looking scripts (note 
that this isn't your fault.  The system wants the scripts to look gross 
like that, apparently).

[1]: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060921045743404

-Jacob




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