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prafulfillment
prafulfillment

Reputation: 911

Determining when QuickTime stops recording using AppleScript

I'm using the following AppleScript to determine when the user clicks the stop recording button in the task bar: 

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    tell document 1
        activate
        new screen recording
        delay 1
        tell application "System Events" to key code 49
        delay 2
        repeat until (new screen recording) is false
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

Though instead the script keeps relaunching QuickTime.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 175

Answers (1)

jackjr300
jackjr300

Reputation: 7191

You can put the result of the new screen recording command into a variable.

Use the exists command to check this document

tell application "QuickTime Player"
    activate
    set tdoc to new screen recording --> document "Screen Recording"
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events" to key code 49
    delay 2
    repeat while exists tdoc
        delay 1
    end repeat
    -- the recording is stopped
    tell front document
        -- do something with the front document ("Untitled")
    end tell
end tell

Upvotes: 1

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