Can I use Apple Script to press a button?
Is there some way I can create an Apple Script to run and press a button in another application, or create a "plug-in" type script for the program to make the button into a something that can be used by a keyboard shortcut?
I ask because I have an application that I can use to operate my digital camera, however, the button that Auto-Focuses then Shoots a photo does not have a keyboard shortcut. This is a problem because I also have the App "Snatch" on my iPhone, and, long story, short, I discovered I could use Snatch on my laptop on an Ad-Hoc network from about 1,000 feet away, maybe more. If I could find a way of making the "AF and Shoot" button into a keyboard shortcut, or create a script that could be triggered by a keyboard shortcut to press the button, I could use Snatch to control my camera remotely, far better then any part I would by from Nikon, or a third-party (Trust me, I have used a lot of them, and this method beats them all, save for the fact that I can't use bulb.)
Anyway, thanks for any input, if any.
Even if an application is not scriptable, you can generally use [GUI Scripting|http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html] to press a button. For example, using Canon's RemoteCapture DC software, the script below will press the "Release" button of the main window:
tell application "RemoteCapture DC" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "RemoteCapture DC"
click button 4 of window "RemoteCapture DC"
end tell
end tell
If you then put the above script in the AppleScript menu in the menu bar, you should be able to use a third party application, like Quicksilver, to assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
Message was edited by: Pierre L.
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