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#1

I want to set uiscript keystroke to TextEntered… but i could not find a way…


display dialog "Set pause to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {NumberEntered, ButtonPressed}

display dialog "Set text to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {TextEntered, ButtonPressed}


delay NumberEntered
set uiScript to "keystroke \"hi
\""
run script "tell application \"System Events\"
" & uiScript & "
end tell"

thx for your help

macco

#2

Hi,

keystroke always needs to target an application process of System Events

#3

Yeah, but if i want System Events to write TextEntered?

cause now it will only type what i set keystroke to…
can’t i set keystroke to textentered?

display dialog "Set pause to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {NumberEntered, ButtonPressed}

display dialog "Set text to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {TextEntered, ButtonPressed}


delay NumberEntered


set x to "keystroke \"
\""
run script "tell application \"System Events\"
" & x & "
end tell"

I tried it like that:

display dialog "Set pause to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {NumberEntered, ButtonPressed}

display dialog "Set text to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {TextEntered, ButtonPressed}


delay NumberEntered


run script ("tell application \"System Events\"
" & TextEntered as keystroke) & "
end tell"

but it doesn’t work…

ty

#4

it isn’t sufficient to tell System Events to do something,
you must tell an application process to perform the keystroke
The common syntax is


display dialog "Set pause to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {NumberEntered, ButtonPressed}

display dialog "Set text to:" default answer ""
copy result as list to {TextEntered, ButtonPressed}

delay NumberEntered

activate application "whatever"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "whatever"
		keystroke TextEntered
	end tell
end tell
#5

Thank you very much, that really helped me…:slight_smile:

#6

But i still have another question…
if i have a repeat loop and want to exit repeat if a certain button or button-combination is pressed,
how do i do that?

thx
macco