Seting The State Of A Menu

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#1

I’m having trouble setting the state of a menu i have tried

set state of menu item "Fred" of sub menu "Using" of sub menu "Speech" of main menu to 0

and that did not work.

Mr. Gecko

#2

Hi Mr. Gecko,

try something like this

set state of menu item "Fred" of menu "Using" of sub menu of menu item "Speech" of main menu to 0

to parse the menus, Apple’s sample script from the documentation is very helpful
The following script statements, taken from a script running in the Script Editor application, target the menus of a simple AppleScript Studio application. You can use similar statements within an AppleScript Studio application script, though you won’t need the tell application statement.

tell application "TestApp"
    first menu -- result: main menu of application "TestApp"
    title of main menu -- result: "MainMenu"
    menu items of main menu -- result: a list of menu items
    title of menu items of main menu
    -- result: {"", "File", "Edit",  "Window", "Help"}
    menus of main menu -- result: long list
    -- {sub menu of menu item id 1 of main menu of application
         "TestApp", etc. }
    menu items of sub menu of menu item id 1 of main menu 
        -- result: a long list
end tell
#3

Thanks It Works