gui scripting

[Michael Hall]

On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:01 PM, terry at trwarren.com wrote:

> Hi - I apologize in advance if this is not the appropriate forum for my
> question.
> 
> I am trying to understand whether the Oracle jdk port of 1.7 supports gui
> scripting using applescript. I have created a mac os x app via the app
> bundler from Oracle and the app itself works fine but (with assistive
> devices enabled in System Preferences) I cannot access the gui elements of
> the app from applescript even though the application seems to be
> recognized (eg with if process "app name" exists). Anyone had experience
> with this?

You might want to check the archives for Apple java-dev list. 
As I recall there was limited gui scripting through the accessibility(?) a pi's. But it was never talked about much and I never tried it myself.

Michael Hall

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