Player Data Sheet

Player is a faceless background application (similar to a system extension) that adds verbs to Frontier and AppleScript to query and manipulate the Macintosh user interface.

The features you need

Menus

• choose commands from pull-down menus, including hierarchical menus
  . . . by name, partial name or position number
  . . . optionally holding one or more modifier keys
• choose from pop-up menus

Dialogs

• click buttons, select radio button options
• check, uncheck or toggle checkboxes
• click unnamed objects (e.g. iconic buttons) by unique ID
• navigate file open & save dialogs

Keyboard

• type text
• enter command/shift/option/control key combinations
• hit function keys, arrows, and other special keys

Mouse

• click (usually relative to the frontmost window or dialog)
• drag ... including through an entire sequence of locations

Query

• determine if a menu, dialog item or window exists
• get the name and attributes of menus and windows
• find the name, value or contents of dialog items

Balloon help

• shows the name, ID, type & XY location of any user interface object

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For the scripting language of your choice

Frontier's UserTalk:

    with Player
        chooseMenu("File", "Page Setup")
        selectRadio("US Legal")
        acceptDialog()


    with Player, keys, modifiers
        typeCombination(cmd, "s")
        choosePopup("Format", "MacWrite")
        typeText(rightArrow + ".MWP")
        clickButton("Save")

AppleScript:

    tell application "PreFab Player"
        do menu menu item "Page Setup" of menu "File"
        click radio button "US Legal"
        type enter
    end tell


    tell application "PreFab Player"
        type "s" holding command
        do menu popup item "MacWrite" of menu "Format"
        type {right arrow, ".MWP"}
        click button "Save"
    end tell

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