Applescript repeat keystroke

How do i make it so this will repeat automatically forever until i stop it manually?
set L1 to "1"
set L2 to "2"
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
keystroke L1
delay 2
keystroke L2
end tell

Camelot - I thought the same (as you); but, followed 'to the letter' the originator's request.
'loo[' - thank you. Nice to know others, on occasion, strike an incorrect key ...

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I dont know if this is possible, but i would like to have a key pressed repeatedly - all the time - while i am playing World of Warcraft on my mac.
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Hi guys,
maybe someone can help me to complete this command. I´m going crazy....
I Have 2 Chrome windows and i want to switch the active focus between them by pressing the following keys:
cmd + shift + ` ( ` = shift + ´ )
I m tryinig to do this command by using the applescript keytroke command. But i do not find the error..... it won t work
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Thx for response.
i tried this code, but it only refreshes 1 of the two open chrome windows. The crazy Party is, that at window open script the swith between the two open windows is working ...... I give you my open Chrome Browser with 2 windows on different screens in fullscreen Mode script and my Browser refresh script. May you have a better look with the complete code.... i m frustrated
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Message was edited by: rccharles

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=================
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click
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                        click menu item "Show Inspector"
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                        set focused of text field 2 to true
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                        set value of text field 2 to theValue
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            set wrap to center
            set name to MSName
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        --after which it would continue with the next MS and repeat the process until all are done
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How to update popup (drop down) cells in Numbers using Applescript

I understand that the list popups (dropdown lists in cells) cannot be dynamic in Numbers.
I have the same dropdown list in multiple cells and tables, and this list often needs to be changed. Its not practical to amend one list, then copy/paste it into 200 plus cells that require the dropdown facility (they are not in sequential rows).
Can Applescript be used to do the copy/paste function, as i could specify the cell ranges. My simple attempt only managed to copy/paste the cell values rather than the dropdown/popup list.
Any constructive help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Hiroto,
I have this script running, with one issue.
set tValues to my doThis(1) -- get values of the selection
if tValues is not "" then
activate
          display dialog "Select the cells where you want to create the PopUp." & return & "After that, click on the 'OK' button."
          my doThis(tValues) -- set the cell format of the new selection to "PopUp Menu" and set the values of the each menu item
          tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "Done"
else
          tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "You must select the cells in a table before running this script."
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on doThis(n)
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                    set tTables to (tables of sheets of front document whose its selection range isnot missing value)
                    repeat with t in tTables -- t is a list of tables of a sheet
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                                        set activeTable to (get item 1 of t)
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                                        return my setValuePopUp(n) -- set value of each menu item
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                                                            repeat while exists row (lenL + 1) of tTable
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                                                            end repeat
                                                  end if
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                                                            set value of text field 1 of row i to item i of L
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==============================
When the popup is created, if there is one header row, it adds "1" to the list of popup items, if there are two header rows, it adds "1", "2" to the list of popup items. What should i amend to remove this (i have two header rows in my sheet).
I would ideally like to add a "-" to the list (to represent nothing selected in the cell) as default i.e. top of the list (i could add the symbol to my source data but that would look untidy). At the moment, after running the script all cell values change to 1.
Oh, what would the best way to modify the script so it selects a specific cell range? At the moment i have to first select a column, then run the script, then select the source cells, then click ok on the dialog box before it does the magic.
Someone else will be running the script, and if its easy to change, i would prefer to have an absolute source cell range values so the user can just rund the script without any selection required.
If you can advise on this, that would be most helpful.

How to press a button on a webpage in safari using applescript?

Hi I am new using the applescript so I am learning about it
I am right now trying to make one with a webpage
http://nycserv.nyc.gov/NYCServWeb/NYCSERVMain
I want to press a button and I can't get to it
this is what I have until now:
tell application "Safari"
activate
          open location "http://nycserv.nyc.gov/NYCServWeb/NYCSERVMain"
          click button "Go"
end tell
Please help me with this. At least with the button "GO" then I will figure it out to finish the rest
thanks

You might like to experiment with something like this:
tell application "Safari"
    activate
    set URL of tab 1 of window 1 to "http://nycserv.nyc.gov/NYCServWeb/NYCSERVMain"
    delay 5
    beep 2
    tell application "System Events"
        repeat with CounterA from 1 to 10
            keystroke tab
            delay 0.5
        end repeat
        keystroke return
    end tell
end tell
It is a bit rough, but it works on my system (Mac OS X 10.4.11, G5, Safari 4.1.3).
The intial delay of 5 seconds is to give the page a chance to load - you might need to increase that. The 2 beeps are to give an audible indication of when the rest of the script starts so, if the page hasn't fully loaded, then you know to increase the delay by a few more seconds. (There is a way of somehow checking the page and/or its contents so that the rest of the script will start only once the page has "settled down". I don't know how to do that, but it would make the delay unnecessary and removes the problem of a slow connection taking longer to load the page than normal.)
The repeat loop sends the tab keystroke 10 times - on my system that's how many presses of the tab key it took to move the "focus" from the URL to the Go button after the "Parking/Red Light..." button. The return keystroke selects that Go button (same as clicking on it), which should then take you to the next page. The 1/2 second delays are there so you can see where things are moving.
That's as far as I got. Hopefully it will give you a start. You might need to experiment a fair bit to find out if your version of Safari behaves the same way with emulated key-presses using the keystroke command in AppleScript (done from within System Events). When I sent 9 tabs instead of 10 (so that the "Parking/Red Light..." button is highlighted, sending the down arrow keystroke ( keystroke (ASCII character 31) ) made the drop-down menu appear.
Sorry I can't give more info, but this should get you going. There are probably much better, more reliable and more efficient ways of doing this but sometimes the quick-and-dirty methods fit the bill enough to do the job.

Applescript repeat keystroke

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