[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript: Newbie trying to script using System Events

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dgodon wrote:

 > Can anyone share some good examples of scripting System Events?  For 
 > instance, to select sub-menu options of an app, or to open/close app 
 > windows, or dock panels in Photoshop.

GUI Scripting's a last resort where applications don't provide a 
suitable scripting interface of their own. It's brittle and fiddly, and 
finding your way around the structure of and application's is a chore. 
Best (paid) solution would be to use UI Browser 
(http://pfiddlesoft.com/uibrowser/) to generate AppleScript commands and 
convert them to Python via ASTranslate. Or you could use appscript's 
interactive help system to browse objects in SE; see the appscript 
manual for more info.

HTH

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