Hi Jonathan,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
Thank you for the script. Getting the song information in a dialogue box would
be fine, it would even be ok if VO just read out the song title without
displaying a dialogue.
I have limited scripting knowledge but I will try to run this script today. Can
I just copy and paste the text of your script into the script editor?
Thanks again for doing this.
Des Delgadillo
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> On Apr 22, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a preliminary version of this script working using the Accessibility
> API. What this means is that an administrator needs to authorize either the
> script editor application or an application created from the script in order
> for this script to run.
>
> Right now I have it use VoiceOver to speak the name of the next song. There
> is also a string that returns the Artist and Album.
>
> To the person that was requesting this, what was the final requirement? Do
> you want the information in a dialog box? Should it run just once, or be
> checking on regular intervals to see if the up next has changed?
>
> Perhaps you want me to attempt to insert the information into a Numbers sheet.
>
> Text of script so far is below: note, I believe at least one of the handlers
> is not being used.
> note 2 I put the UI Elements being accessed as properties at the top of the
> script.
>
> use application "System Events"
> use scripting additions
>
> property miniPlayerWindow : a reference to window "miniplayer" of application
> process "iTunes"
> property ToggleButton : a reference to pop up button 2 of miniPlayerWindow
> property UpNextRadioButton : a reference to radio button "Up Next" of radio
> group 1 of miniPlayerWindow
> property ScrollRegion : a reference to scroll area 1 of miniPlayerWindow
> property NextSongItem : a reference to static text 1 of UI element 1 of row 1
> of table 1 of ScrollRegion
> property NextAlbumItem : a reference to static text 2 of UI element 1 of row
> 1 of table 1 of ScrollRegion
>
> on run
> -- find the mini player or create it
> ActivateMiniPlayer()
> if description of ToggleButton is not equal to "hide up next" then
> error "Who are we kidding, this should be the button. Perhaps
> iTunes changed the arrangement"
> end if
>
> if value of UpNextRadioButton = 0 then -- Up next needs to be selected
> click UpNextRadioButton
> end if
>
> -- make sure information is visible
> set ScrollSize to size of ScrollRegion
> if second item of ScrollSize is equal to 0 then -- hight = 0
> click ToggleButton
> end if
>
> set Song to value of NextSongItem
> set ALbum to value of NextAlbumItem
> VoiceOverSpeech(Song)
> return Song & ALbum
> end run
>
> on VoiceOverSpeech(myText)
> tell application "VoiceOver" to output myText
>
> end VoiceOverSpeech
> on ActivateMiniPlayer()
> set iTunesRunning to my ActivateIfRunning:"iTunes"
> if not iTunesRunning then
> error "You must be running iTunes for this script to work."
> end if
> tell application "iTunes"
> if (not (exists miniplayer window 1)) then
> make new miniplayer window
> end if
> end tell
> return {}
> return window "MiniPlayer" of application process "iTunes"
> end ActivateMiniPlayer
>
>
> on appWithName(appName as {text, application})
> set c to class of appName
> if c is equal to application then
> return appName
> else if c is equal to text then
> return application appName
> end if
> end appWithName
>
>
> on ActivateIfRunning:appName
> try
> set frontmost of application process appName to true
> set Success to true
> on error
> set Success to false
> end try
> return Success
> end ActivateIfRunning:
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan Cohn
>
>
>
>
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