applescript

Try this. Notice you use “-e” when you are writing the command. Without “-e” you would give a path to an applescript to run. Also notice the string command must be in quotes. osascript -e “tell application \”iTunes\” to activate” And if you have a multi-line applescript you use “-e” before each line like this… … Read more

When using arrow keys you need to target them via key code. tell application “Sublime Text 2” to activate tell application “System Events” key code 123 using {control down, option down, command down} end tell ARROW KEY CODES LEFT: (key code 123) RIGHT: key code 124) UP: (key code 126) DOWN: (key code 125)

I don’t think you can send a keystroke to an inactive application. But you can hide an app immediately after activating it and executing code for it. This does however, cause the app to briefly flash before it hides, unless the app is running in fullscreen. tell application “System Events” tell application “X” to activate … Read more

Sure it works. System events can perform keystrokes. However, keystrokes are always sent to the frontmost application so to perform a shortcut for an application you must tell that app to activate first and then perform the shortcut. For example, I can open a new tab in Safari using command-t. That applescript would look like … Read more

AppleScript doesn’t make it easy: log only logs while running in AppleScript Editor or when running via osascript (to stderr in that case) – the output will be lost in other cases, such as when applications run a script with the NSAppleScript Cocoa class. log only accepts one argument; while it does accept any object … Read more