Static text from Notification Centre...

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#1

Hi All.

I was trying to find a good approach to extract static text from Notification Centre.
So my first try was to use GUI Scripting. The code below does the job…

But I was thinking wouldn’t this be possible with ASObjC.

Anyone knowing anything about this ??.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
	tell menu bar 1
		class of UI elements
		get its name of UI elements
	end tell
	activate
	click menu bar item "Notification Centre" of menu bar 1
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Notification Centre"
	tell window 1
		--> {radio group, scroll area, button}
		tell radio group 1
			--> {radio button, radio button}
		end tell
		
		tell scroll area 1
			--> {table, scroll bar}
			tell table 1
				tell UI element of every row
					tell every static text
						set uiText to get its name
						-- Get the static text of Notification Centre. 
						return item 1 of item 4 of uiText
					end tell
				end tell
			end tell
			
			tell scroll bar 1
				--> {value indicator, button, button, button, button}
				tell value indicator 1
					set value to 0
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
		
		tell buttons
			if ((get its description) is {"Notification Centre Preferences"} as list) then
				-- click item 1
			else
				error "Script got an error: User canceled." number -128
			end if
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
#2

No. Developers have very little access to the notification center, which is a separate process.

#3

Hi Shane.

I thought that was the case, here is my code at least use GUI Scripting.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
	set frontmost to true
	click menu bar item "Notification Centre" of menu bar 1
end tell

set theNotification to getNotificationText(4)

set {theTitle, theTime, theSubtitle, missing value, theMessage} to theNotification

on getNotificationText(rowNumber)
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Notification Centre"
		tell window 1 to tell scroll area 1 to tell table 1
			tell UI element of every row
				tell every static text
					set rowText to get its name
					-- Get the static text of Notification Centre. 
					return item 1 of item rowNumber of rowText
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end getNotificationText

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
	set frontmost to true
	click menu bar item "Notification Centre" of menu bar 1
end tell
#4

This one include error handler, the 2 first index are not used…
So the first message will always be index 3.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
	set frontmost to true
	click menu bar item "Notification Centre" of menu bar 1
end tell

set theNotification to getNotificationText(6)
set {theTitle, theTime, theSubtitle, missing value, theMessage} to theNotification
its theTitle & " " & theTime & " " & theSubtitle & " " & theMessage

on getNotificationText(rowNumber)
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Notification Centre"
		tell window 1 to tell scroll area 1 to tell table 1
			tell UI element of every row
				tell every static text
					set rowText to get its name
					-- Get the static text of Notification Centre.
					if (count items of item 1 of item rowNumber of rowText) > 4 then
						return item 1 of item rowNumber of rowText
					else
						display dialog "This row index doesn't contain any message"
						error "missing value" number -128
					end if
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end getNotificationText
#5

Some events is predefined by the Cocoa. So, you can trap predefined events using ASObjC. Now I don’t remember where I met a list of these events. See NSNotification.Name documentation.