Click UI element

Hello,
I would like to click combo box (similar textedit font size) using apple script but I don't have idea how to finish script because UI button does't have its identifier. Accessibility tool shows folowing:
tell application "System Events"
          tell process "application"
                    set NewWindow to (a reference to window "Untitled") #on the main window's tool bar the button exists
                    set NewWindowContent to entire contents of NewWindow
                    repeat with NewWindowContent in NewWindowContent
         how to finish?
                    end repeat
          end tell
end tel
thanks for reply

Unfortunately, a lot of the UI items don't have an identifier that you can use, so in those cases you can use an index, for example "button 3 of group 2 of window 1" or whatever. A method I've found that works fairly well is to use the Accessibility Inspector to get a general idea of where to go, then get all of the particular elements at a spot in the hierarchy to narrow down the items, for example
tell application "System Events" to tell process "some application"
get buttons of window 1
end tell
Then you can look at individual items to see if it is what you are looking for, and go from there:
get properties of button 1 of window 1
Usually you have to click first on a combo box or popup button to get it to show its menu, then you can see the menu hierarchy.

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Your screen shots are not visible to me. But I think I understand your question.
Several thoughts come to mind:
rbhix wrote:
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Clicking an element in a list doesn't work

Sorry about my rather vague subject - my problem is not so easy to sum up in a few words.
I am working on an application that
- Displays a list of items from a MySQL table
- Each item should be clickable, and on clicking should open an edit page with the clicked item pre-loaded
This must have been done millions of times before and should be simple. It doesn't work, presumably because I know too little. This is what I have done:
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href="#" onclick="mojarra.jsfcljs(document.getElementById('j_idt9'),{'j_idt9:users:1:j_idt15':'j_idt9:users:1:j_idt15'},'');return false"
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But what is the right way, then? I haven't found any examples that highlight this particular situation although it must be used all the time, I expect.

#{userlist.userList()
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I use the JBoss Tools Eclipse plugin myself; it has nice JSF additions that add EL validation and autocompletion to the editor. That way I know already from the code view when I've made a mistake in stead of "at runtime". A missing action method turns up as a warning in the jsf editor for example. That is of course only helpful when you're actually using Eclipse ;)

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Right Clicking JList Elements

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import java.awt.event.*;
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Capture click on element inside List itemRenderer

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Click every element in a window via GUI Scripting

Hi, I'd like to iterate through every element on an iTunes window and try to click on each element.
I'd also like to write to a text file showing each element that I've clicked.
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I don't know what you're trying to do, but Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You can started like this, but I think the first click is going to close the iTunes window!
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFDDFF;
overflow: auto;">
tell application "iTunes" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
set elements to get entire contents of window "iTunes"
repeat with anElement in elements
try
click anElement
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end </pre>

How to open a new page from a Spry Table click, with element info?

Hello, Spry experts!
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What I want is to be able to add a behavior such that when a table row is clicked, I can open a new page. Moreover, I want to pass a parameter from the table to the new page, like http://www.mydomain.com/newpage.php?aid=12345 or whatever.
So, for example, my table has two columns, "a_id" and "a_name", and my repeat region looks like this:
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<table width="500">
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2. How to extract the {a_id} value from the current row and pass it as a parameter to the action?
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I have an HP laptop preloaded with Adobe Premiere Elements 10. For whatever reason Elements will "run" on click, but not even open the load screen or anything and then act like I never tried to open it? whats going on?

I bought my HP laptop in 2012, and it came preloaded with Adobe Premiere and Photoshop Elements 10
It worked fine and I even made a few video edits back in 2012 but for the last year Elements just REFUSES to work properly
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Thanks for the reply with additional information.
Recent history for Premiere Elements points to the program having problems when more than 1 video card/graphics card is
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Can you disable one or the other card to determine the impact of this on your problem?
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Double click event on a specific element in a FrameMaker document

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Is there anything similar to the ArrElem Property Node, that allows a user to detect which element in an array has been clicked on (mouse down event), but for a cluster?
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Creation of Data Element

Hi,
I am working on special project of Automation of all utility billing and housing system for a big company in SAP.
For that I have to create 26 tables and obviously I am creating a lot of dataelements.
Now the problem is my quality dept says that I should use the inbuilt data elements and refrain from creating new ones. In this case the field label is not matching my field. He says that who is going to see the table and says that you can change the field description in reports as you like. Is it justified.
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Can we create dataelement just for the sake of field label and what is the other purpose of a dataelement if not
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If your Quality people are that much particular about creation of data elements, there is one way to solve this problem. Use standard data elements.
I know here you will get a doubt that after creating a maintenance generator you will not be able to see the description whatever you want in SM30. For this follow the below procedure.
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This is somewhat time consuming, but it may help you.
Reward points, if useful.
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How do you determine the index of an element in a cluster?

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Will,
Welcome to the forum.
This ARTICLE has a checklist on getting PrE to work well on one's computer, and then it goes into tuning the computer and OS. Last, there are linked articles on troubleshooting, and on many aspects of one's computer and OS, when the general tune up tips do not fix things. If the checklist, and tuneup tips do not help, then step through the troubleshooting tips, one at a time, as they work up in "degree of difficulty."
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