Keystroke "[" using command down in Safari?

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#1

Can someone remind me why this wouldn’t work? Compiles fine, just gets a beep. Seems I have used it in the past.


tell application "System Events"
	tell process "safari"
		keystroke "[" using command down
	end tell
end tell

Should I use the Delete key instead? If so what’s the code for that key?

Appreciated.

#2

this works for me…

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to keystroke "[" using {command down}

tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to keystroke (ASCII character 8) -- delete key

Tom

Browser: Safari 525.27.1
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#3

Hi Johnny
You can also do it with the “set frontmost to true” option

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Safari"
		set frontmost to true
		keystroke "[" using command down
	end tell
end tell
#4

Thanks for confirming that. Now it works. Not sure what my error was.

#5

The error was that the script did not make Safari frontmost (somehow) before it sent a GUI command to it.

#6

Yep. I forgot that part.

Or maybe there was no page to go back to - that would have really been a “duh” moment if I had realized it.