Getting out of using System Events?

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#1

Hi All, How can I get out of using System Events and do the same thing?

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "TextEdit" to keystroke (ASCII character 116) using {command down} -- opens the Font pallet
		keystroke (ASCII character 99) using {command down, shift down} -- opens the Color picker
	end tell
end tell

Any and all help is very much appreciated.

Tom

#2

Hello

My guess is that we can’t get rid of GUI scripting to do that.

Just a comment: as ASCII character() is a dying command, it would be fine to edit this way:

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "TextEdit" to keystroke "t" using {command down} -- opens the Font pallet
		keystroke "c" using {command down, shift down} -- opens the Color picker
	end tell
end tell

Yvan KOENIG

#3

Is there some purpose to opening the color picker?

#4

Hi Yvan, Thanks for the heads up on ASCII characters and the rewrite. I appreciate it.

Tom
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Hi Bruce, I and two friends are testing TextEdit’s ability to produce an html page.
We want to check the color tags along with all the other html tags at W3C.

Tom