Trying to hide Trillian once it logs in

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Been messing around with this today.
At the moment, if I run Trillian in the login items, it’s too quick for my Wifi and tells me the connection fails.
Simple fix for that is obviously just a simple delay script. So I did that with no problems.

That got me thinking- since I’m already writing a script, why not get Trillian to do what I want it to when I launch it- hide the contact list window as soon as it’s signed in. Sort of like a silent login.

I’ve been using UI Browser a bit trying to work out what the best approach is. The closest I’ve come with limited success is this:

delay 3
activate application "Trillian"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Trillian"
		get title of window 1
		if title of window 1 is "Trillian" then
			click button 1 of window 1
		else
			delay 0.5
			repeat until title of window 1 is "Trillian"
			end repeat
			click button 1 of window 1
		end if
	end tell
end tell

The signing in window doesn’t have a title. If I run just the get title of window 1 for the signing in window, it comes back in the results as “”.
So this idea above basically waits until the title of window 1 is Trillian, then clicks close on that window (contact list).
It seems to work if I’ve got another application window open. For example, I just tried running the script with this Firefox window open that I’m typing this into, and it worked just fine.
However, if I minimize FF, I get the error: “No result was returned from some part of this expression.” number -2763
Or if I save it as an app, I get "Can’t get window 1 of «class prcs» “Trillian” of application “System Events”. Invalid index.
I’ve also had that error when running it from Applescript Editor once or twice.

I don’t know if I’m going about this the right way or not. So if anyone’s got any suggestions of how to fix what I’ve done, or a better way of doing what I’m trying to do, please post!

Running 10.6.5

#2

I think the problem occurs between the sign in window closing and the contact list window opening.
One other option I thought of was instead of getting the window title, get the enabled of button 2 (zoom), because in the sign in window it’s false but in the contact list window it’s true.
Then I could do something like:

delay 3
activate application "Trillian"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Trillian"
		get enabled of button 2 of window 1
		if enabled of button 2 of window 1 is "True" then
			click button 1 of window 1
		else
			delay 0.5
			repeat until enabled of button 2 of window 1 is "True"
			end repeat
			click button 1 of window 1
		end if
	end tell
end tell

However, I’ve tried this and it seemed to give me the same error at the same place as the first script.

#3

Success with the latter. Must have been doing something wrong the first time.
This is what’s working successfully:

delay 3
activate application "Trillian"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Trillian"
		get enabled of button 2 of window 1
		if enabled of button 2 of window 1 is true then
			click button 1 of window 1
		else
			repeat until enabled of button 2 of window 1 is true
				delay 0.1
			end repeat
			click button 1 of window 1
		end if
	end tell
end tell