Question on perform action

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#1

I tried to use perform within the System Evenets application to script UI elements. I use get action of radio button and see there is action “AXPress”. Then I script as follows perform “AXPress” but I do not see anything happens. I also try to perform “AXMenuShow”, perform “AXConfirm” on test field, I do not see any operation either. Am I doing the right thing?

#2

This works fine here (this will pick the refresh button of the toolbar with my current configuration in Safari):

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Safari"
		perform action "AXPress" of button 1 of group 2 of tool bar 1 of window 1
	end tell
end tell

Some items will need be the frontmost process to work. Eg (this will choose the “about this mac” menu item in my Finder):

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Finder"
		set frontmost to true
		perform action "AXPress" of menu item 1 of menu 1 of menu bar item "Finder" of menu bar 1
	end tell
end tell
#3

Thanks jj!

I make it work now. The problem is that I need to use

perform action “AXPress” – this works fine.

but

perform “AXPress” – this does not work.

Thanks so much!