CS5 commands not recordable by Action script?

I'm finding out that some commands such as View > Rulers > Change to Global Rulers cannot be recorded while a command such as View > Rulers > Show Rulers is recorded fine.
I wonder if I should just give up on the Action scripts and look for some OS based keystroke macro recording utility? Any comments?
Thanks
franK

what do you mean?
"Fit Artboard to Window" is something you wish there was a command for?
if so, you could
- draw a "window" with the Rectangle Tool
with the rectangle selected, record an action that does the rest
- Fit Artboard to Selected art
- Save
- Delete "window"
- Close

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to
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to
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Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
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