UI Browser and column width

Question

I am trying to get UI Browser help me set the width of a column, normally done by double clicking at the bottom of the scroll bar where the 2 hash marks are.
Here is what I have tried so far but to no avail. Even Bill Cheeseman wrote me back and couldnt get it to work. I though maybe you have to enable either the scroll area first , or the grow area, any ideas how to script the width of a column of a Finder window.
activate application "Finder"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Finder"
select scroll area 1 of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of window "Documents"
set enabled of scroll area 1 of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of window "Documents" to true
tell grow area 1 of scroll area 1 of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
click
delay 0.01
click
end tell
end tell
end tell

Answer 1

I think the problem may be related to the double-click speed when using System Events, so you might try another way to click at the screen location. Cliclick is a handy little utility that can double-click at an arbitrary screen location - it seems to work OK with the following script (you will need to change the (POSIX) path to wherever you put the shell script):
<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: #FFEE80;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder"
try
if current view of window 1 is not column view then error
on error
return
end try
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Finder"
try -- get the last column resizer
get position of grow area 1 of last scroll area of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
on error -- oops, only one column
get position of grow area 1 of scroll area 1 of scroll area 1 of browser 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
end try
tell the result to set {X, Y} to {(item 1) + 7, (item 2) + 7} -- center in the grow area
do shell script "/the/path/to/cliclick d" & X & space & Y
end tell
end tell
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