[jinxjinx]

anyone know how to make apple script listen for mouse events and simulate key strokes?

thanks

[Sal]

Try this:

<http://prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/>

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by jinxjinx 

anyone know how to make apple script listen for mouse events and simulate key strokes?

thanks

You mean how it used to have a record feature?

IMHO Applescript is being slowly moved out in favor of Automator. And now Automator has this "record" feature in 10.5

[larkost]

Where do you get the idea that AppleScript is on the way out? AppleScript and Automater do different things: AppleScript is a full scripting language that just got a number of important and significant updates in 10.5, Automator is a linear system that can use AppleScript and other modules to glue together a non-forking workflow.

If you just need to do a simple process, use Automator. If you need something with any logic at all in it, use AppleScript.

[Sal]

Leopard is a big release for AppleScript! Check out www.apple.com/AppleScript for details. It is the native scripting language of Mac OS X and will continue to be advanced and improved. Thanks, Sal

[Kevin]

Well color me wrong. Record now does work in the Finder.

I apologize.

[zro]

That reminds me, under 10.5 I seem to no longer be able to specify text item delimiters without having '.' (dot) be one of them.

[Sal]

This works fine for me in 10.5.1:

set this_string to "Sal Sue Bob Carl"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set these_names to every text item of this_string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
these_names
--> returns: {"Sal", "Sue", "Bob", "Carl"}