Hello.
The old scripts that allowed you to select the word, line, or paragraph where the mouse pointer was located no longer work.
I need valid code for a script that allows me to make these selections.
I would also like to ask anyone who can share the code that selects the word, line, and paragraph where the cursor is located (the word is selected by double-clicking and the paragraph by triple-clicking).
Thank you in advance for any help.
What is the code that is no longer working?
What is the context of the text you want to select? IE what is its container?
Is it a UIElement?
If not are there not key-combinations that you can use to select different parts based on your cursor position that you can use?
Like “Left-Option-Shift” to select from position back to front of word”
The goal was to obtain the code that allows text selection to continue in a script so that it could be used as a voice command (the default commands offered by MacOS for selecting words or paragraphs are an end in themselves and cannot be integrated into an AppleScript voice command).
On the other hand, the reference point you use is the cursor, not the mouse pointer (which is what I’m really interested in).
The following code stopped working some time ago.
use AppleScript version "2.4" --max version macOS 10.12
use scripting additions
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "Quartz"
property updateMouseCursorPosition : true
property buttonCount : 1 -- left mouse button number
property mouseButtonDown : true -- mouse button pressed?
--delay 3 --
set aPoint to getCurrentMousePosition() -- get current cursor position on screen
repeat 3 times
mouseLeftClick at aPoint
0.05
end repeat
on getCurrentMousePosition()
-- 2 Getting the screen resolution and the bottom bound
tell application "Finder" to set screen_resolution to bounds of window of desktop
set theBottom to item 4 of screen_resolution
-- Getting current mouse position {0,0} is top left corner of screen
set currentMousePosition to (current application's NSEvent's (mouseLocation)) as record
set x to currentMousePosition's x as integer
set y to theBottom - (currentMousePosition's y) as integer
return {x, y}
end getCurrentMousePosition
on mouseLeftClick at aPoint
current application's CGPostMouseEvent(aPoint, updateMouseCursorPosition, buttonCount, mouseButtonDown)
current application's CGPostMouseEvent(aPoint, updateMouseCursorPosition, buttonCount, not mouseButtonDown)
end mouseLeftClick
⇒ I found a solution through Claude from Anthropic that I want to share with you ⇐
–Copy/Cut/Overwrite word/paragraph located under the mouse pointer
use AppleScript version "2.4"
use scripting additions
use framework "Foundation"
set screenHeight to do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | awk '/UI Looks like/{print $6; exit}'"
set currentMousePosition to (current application's NSEvent's mouseLocation) as record
set x to currentMousePosition's x as integer
set y to (screenHeight as integer) - (currentMousePosition's y as integer)
--do shell script "/usr/local/bin/clic " & x & " " & y & " 2" -- Select word
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/clic " & x & " " & y & " 3" -- Select paragraph
delay 0.5 -- 1 -- ???
tell application "System Events" to set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
tell application frontApp to activate
delay 0.2
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down -- copy
--tell application "System Events" to keystroke "x" using command down -- cut
--tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down -- overwrite with clipboard
The code for clic.c (in /usr/local/bin) is as follows: (unfortunately, it is not written in Apple’s own language)
(Granting Accessibility permissions)
#include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (argc != 4) return 1;
float x = atof(argv[1]);
float y = atof(argv[2]);
int clicks = atoi(argv[3]);
CGPoint point = CGPointMake(x, y);
for (int i = 1; i <= clicks; i++) {
CGEventRef down = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(NULL, kCGEventLeftMouseDown, point, kCGMouseButtonLeft);
CGEventRef up = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(NULL, kCGEventLeftMouseUp, point, kCGMouseButtonLeft);
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(down, kCGMouseEventClickState, i);
CGEventSetIntegerValueField(up, kCGMouseEventClickState, i);
CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, down);
CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, up);
CFRelease(down);
CFRelease(up);
usleep(50000);
}
return 0;
}