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Jacopo
Jacopo

Reputation: 123

Click with applescript

I'm trying to automate the click in a certain position of the screen. I found several answers to my question, but none of them helped me.

This command should verify if "Spotify" (it's a random application, just to do a test) is frontmost. If that's true, it should click on a certain position of the screen (in that case, the position of the mouse is on the "play" button). I run the program, everything is going ok. But when i put the application in foreground nothing happen. The program end with "Result: 1"

set x to 0
repeat until x is equal to 1
    tell application "System Events"
        if frontmost of application "Spotify" is true then
            delay (2)
            tell application "System Events"
                click at {720, 634}
            end tell
            set x to 1
        end if
    end tell
end repeat

I also tried to put some "delay", but they've been useless.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1798

Answers (1)

Jacopo
Jacopo

Reputation: 123

Found an alternative way: use python.

To install python, just surf the internet and you'll find out how to do it.

The library I used is "pyAutoGui". To install it just look here: https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Then, if you wanna use python and this library on automator, do like this.

  1. Open automator
  2. Find in the menu "Run Shell Script"
  3. On "Shell" option, select "/bin/bash"

Then, if you wanna run your program with a third part library, copy that

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7<< "EOF"

insert your python program and then write "EOF" at the end

Here a little exemple

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7<< "EOF"
import pyautogui
pyautogui.click(720, 634)
EOF

Upvotes: 1

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