UI Scripting in Safari -- Setting selection of pop up menu

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#1

I am writing an application that gathers information from the user and then fills it out on a webpage. I have no problems getting data into all of the required fields except for the pop up buttons.

The website is: http://www.its.uncc.edu/network/hostdb.html

With the code below, I can click the pop up button and the menu will appear but I keep running into problems getting it to select the menu item.


activate application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Safari"
		-- GUI Scripting statements:
		tell pop up button 1 of group 61 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 2 of window "ITS - Network Services - Faculty/Staff Computer & Printer Registration Form"
			click
			click menu item 1 of menu 1
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

The error is:
System Events got an error: Can’t get menu 1 of pop up button 1 of group 61 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 2 of window “ITS - Network Services - Faculty/Staff Computer & Printer Registration Form” of process “Safari”. Invalid index.

I know there is a menu somewhere, but I cannot seem to find it. I’m sure that someone on this site will have an answer because I have found so many solutions here before. Thanks in advance!

#2

Did you ever solve this? I am having the same problem. As a workaround, I can use keystrokes to select the pop-up item I want, but there must be a better way. (mustn’t there?)

#3

The problem (I believe) is that there is no UI menu underneath the popup button. I haven’t been able to find an exact solution. However, you can use javascript to fill in most values on a form. You have to look at the source of your page and find the form name, such as:

then in apple script write:

tell application "Safari"
	set theWord to "hello"
	set doc to document "ITS - Network Services - Faculty/Staff Computer & Printer Registration Form" -- This is the title of the webpage
	log (doc's name)
	do JavaScript "document.forms[1]['Ethernet Address'].value = \"" & theWord & "\"" in doc -- Where 'Ethernet Address' is the NAME of the form above
end tell

This is for a text field. However, you can do index scripting for popup buttons. If you would like, I can post some examples of that.

The ONLY problem that I have with this is that if you have to forms with the same exact name, Javascript errors out and does nothing.

#4

Thanks… actually, the form I’m using already has obnoxious JavaScript, so I think trying to set the values in the DOM won’t work for me.

Ah well. keystroke’s actually working fine, other than the odd fact that sending a CR (ASCII character 13) seems to hang up Safari for 5-6 seconds. Weird.