clicking a button

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#1

I’m trying to write a ui script simply to click the apply now button in the network pref pane but it’s not working…

tell application “System Preferences”
activate
set current pane to pane “com.apple.preference.Network”
tell window “Network”
click button “Apply Now”
end
end tell

What it the proper way of clicking a normal button with ui scripting?

#2

I had to use Extra Suites when I wanted to hit a button
on an app that wasn’t scriptable.

property theTicks : 200

selectMenuItem("GameRanger", 2, 1)

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on selectMenuItem(appl, theMenu, menuItem)
	tell application "GameRanger" to quit
	tell application "Extra Suites"
		ES set screen resolution width 1024 height 768
		ES pause theTicks
		ES set volume 15
		set mouseLoc to ES mouse location
		ES move mouse {659, 337}
		ES pause theTicks
		ES click mouse
		ES pause theTicks
		ES pause theTicks
		tell application "GameRanger" to activate
		set mouseLoc to ES mouse location
		ES move mouse {30, 15}
		ES pause theTicks
		ES click mouse
		repeat theMenu times
			ES type key "right arrow"
			ES pause theTicks
		end repeat
		repeat menuItem times
			ES type key "down arrow"
			ES pause theTicks
		end repeat
		ES type key "return"
		ES move mouse mouseLoc
		ES type key "return"
		ES pause theTicks
		ES pause theTicks
		ES pause theTicks
		ES pause theTicks
		tell application "Extra Suites"
			ES pause theTicks
			ES move mouse {720, 420}
			ES click mouse
			ES type key "return"
		end tell
	end tell
end selectMenuItem

It’s just an example

#3

i get what u mean, but i’m pretty sure there should be an easier way if the app is a cocoa app (like a prefpane). i know you can click other items like popup buttons much or easily like

click pop up button 1

but i can’t work out how to click an ordinary button :frowning:

#4

You could try

tell button "Apply Now" to perform action