I am writing a script to print a section of a bookdown
online book as PDF, then move to the next section, and so on.
The print part works (the key codes are from this page):
tell application "Safari"
activate
tell application "System Events"
key code 35 using command down -- activate print menu item
end tell
delay 0.5
set i to 0
repeat while i < 15
set i to i + 1
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
key code 48 -- press tab 15 times
end tell
end repeat
tell application "System Events"
key code 49 -- press space
end tell
set i to 0
repeat while i < 2
set i to i + 1
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
key code 125 -- press down key twice
end tell
end repeat
tell application "System Events"
key code 36 -- enter
end tell
set i to 0
repeat while i < 16
set i to i + 1
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
key code 125 -- press tab to get to "save"
end tell
end repeat
tell application "System Events"
key code 36 -- enter to cleck on save
end tell
end tell
Problem
Now that I have printed the current section and I am back on Safari, I can click manually on the right arrow and move to the next section, but I can't manage to have the script to do that.
I have tried to add the following to the script above:
tell application "System Events"
key code 124 -- right arrow to enter the next page
end tell
Or even to "reopen" Safari, but nothing happens.
tell application "Safari"
activate
tell application "System Events"
key code 124 -- right arrow to move to the next section
end tell
end tell
How can I have AppleScript "turn the page" and move to the next section?
Also, I welcome suggestions to improve the script! I wonder if it would be easy to avoid repeating "tab" 15 times. I have looked at the Accessibility Inspector and found that "PDF" in the print menu corresponds to NSPopUpButtonCell
. I have tried to use select NSPopUpButtonCell of its sheet
but it did not work.