Please help with a simple UI scripting of CoverFlow!

Question

Hi, this should be so simple! all I want to do is use applescript to sort the iTunes library by artist (for instance) in CoverFlow mode. I could not see any way to do this using menus or hotkeys (I only found this in Grid mode.. God only know why..) so the only way is to click the "artist" column header.
The UI inspector tells me that this is
<AXApplication: “iTunes”>
<AXWindow: “iTunes”>
<AXSplitGroup>
<AXSplitGroup>
<AXScrollArea>
<AXOutline>
<AXGroup>
<AXButton: “Artist”>
Attributes:
AXRole: “AXButton”
AXRoleDescription: “sort button”
AXSubrole: “AXSortButton”
AXDescription: “(null)”
AXHelp: “(null)”
AXEnabled: “1”
AXFocused: “1”
AXParent: “<AXGroup>”
AXWindow: “<AXWindow: “iTunes”>”
AXTopLevelUIElement: “<AXWindow: “iTunes”>”
AXPosition: “x=456 y=747”
AXSize: “w=125 h=16”
AXTitle: “Artist”
AXSortDirection: “AXAscendingSortDirection”
Actions:
AXPress - press
and I thought that this applescript was the way to go:
tell application "System Events"
click button "Artists" of the first group of the first outline of the first scroll area of the first splitter group of the first splitter group of window "iTunes" of application "iTunes"
end tell
unfortunately it compiles but when I launch it is says that the button doesn't understand the "click" message:
iTunes got an error: «class butT» "Artists" of «class sgrp» 1 of «class outl» 1 of «class scra» 1 of «class splg» 1 of «class splg» 1 of window "iTunes" doesn’t understand the click message.
What am I doing wrong? (and yes, UI access is enabled)
please let me know asap
thanks in advance!
cheers

Answer 1

found, this does the trick
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "iTunes"
tell window "iTunes"
tell splitter group 1
tell scroll area 2
tell outline 1
tell group 1
tell button "Artist"
click
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
hope this is useful for somebody else.