I’m trying to come up with a simple script that opens the “Activation” tab of the the “Screen Effects” item within the “System Preferences” application…
I get as far as
tell application “System Preferences” to activate
Then I’m stuck.
I change from password protected screen effects to non-password-protected quite often (one at work, the other at home) and would like a script to make this easier–I’d like to have a script that would let me easily toggle between protected and unprotected, but I’m having trouble getting there.
Assuming that you have installed Apple’s UI Scripting software, this might work.
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
set exists_ to false
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "System Preferences"
tell menu item "Screen Effects" of menu "View" of menu bar 1 to click
repeat until exists_ is true
set exists_ to exists window "Screen Effects"
delay 1
end repeat
tell radio button "Activation" of tab group 1 of window "Screen Effects" to click
end tell
end tell
It could probably stand some error checking but this should get you started.