Re: Quicksilver and Adobe Air apps (PandoraONE app)?

[Rob McBroom]

On May 14, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Ari Goldman <gold...@gmail.com> wrote:

Probably not, but is there a way to teach Quicksilver to send commands (play, pause, thumbs up, thumbs down) to the official Pandora One app?  It runs on Adobe Air, and so may not be penetrable by outside app calls.  

Any ideas?

I would guess “no”, but I don’t have it installed. You could check the AppleScript Editor to see if that application is listed under “Open Dictionary…”, or see if it has any command-line switches.

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Rob McBroom
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[Dave Land]

I think it goes beyond "no", all the way to "heck no".

Nothing in Pandora is directly accessible via AppleScript.

From the olden days (2005?) I remembered using Apple's UI Element Inspector to discover things that can be accessed via AppleScript. There's nothing accessible in PandoraOne: the entire thing appears as a single opaque object.

If you're still willing to take a shot at it, you'll probably want to use Apple's "System Events" Scripting Addition and use the "Click at {x, y}" event, but be aware that X and Y are screen coordinates, so you will have to get the location of the PandoraOne window and calculate offsets from that to hit the buttons.

Like i said, pretty much "heck no".

Dave