So the Notification Center app seems to be where a fair bit of the Mountain Lion magic happens… and it appears to be utterly unscriptable, Automator unfriendly, and without obvious hooks.
Why Twitter sharing belongs in Notification Center I have no idea.
This is why I don't want developer access. Yes, I'm at a disadvantage compared to people who know the APIs, but anything I can discover by poking around I don't need to be afraid to share with the world.
@DanielLawson well, you can use System Events from AppleScript to click on arbitrary UI items using the accessibility framework. I'm just not sure if you can get at whichever app hosts NC.
(I had thought it was the Dock, but I played around for a few minutes and couldn't find any of the NC elements)
tell application "System Events" tell process "Notification Center" UI elements of window "Window" end tell end tell {static text "Notification Center" of window "Window" of application process "NotificationCenter" of application "System Events", button 1 of window "Window" of application process "NotificationCenter" of application "System Events", button 2 of window "Window" of application process "NotificationCenter" of application "System Events", scroll area 1 of window "Window" of application process "NotificationCenter" of application "System Events"}
whaaaa? AppleScript can't hold modifier keys while clicking on things?
oh I see
:)
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Notification Center"
key down option
click (first menu bar's first menu bar item)
key up option
end tell
end tell
OH DEAR GOD
Tip: NEVER EVER EVER run a script with an unmatched key down option.
I'm at this, but my tweet button just broke. Maybe time to call it a night:
tell application "System Events" tell process "Notification Center" click menu bar 1's menu bar item 1 click first window's first scroll area's first table's second row's UI element 1's button 1 keystroke "spam my Twitter feed" click button1 of UI element 1 of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window "window" end tell end tell
Apps can hook into the sharing options with the new NSSharingService API. It sounds like custom LaunchBar actions can be made with any UNIX executable file, so you could probably write a small command line tool (or you may need to build an actual app — you'll have to test it out) which activates ...
I had neatly sorted the applications in Launchpad when I was running Lion. But after upgrading to Mountain Lion, none of my custom folders are there any more, and it seems Launchpad is back to the default layout (the first page being all Apple apps).
Is there a way to restore the layout I had in...
Whenever I edit my own answer, and click Save Edits, I get the dialog confirming that I want to leave the page:
It should just save my edits as I am trying to save them, not cancel them.
This is happening for me on Safari 5.1 / OSX. EDIT: Safari 6.0 now consistently reproduces this problem.
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@balpha while you are here, presuming you did the Mountain Lion page - presume that the blog challenge is not automated, do you need to poke it to get my name to appear? Thanks :)
Also, great work on the page, I really like the promotion styles
User prompt for address book access
This has only been officially announced for iOS 6 but quietly made it's way into Mountain Lion.
Your address book data is located in:
/Users/my_name/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
So far, I've used a firewall to controll read/write access on a per...
@JasonSalaz Yeah, there should be a simple test - if text is entered anywhere on teh page, not safe to drop. Having said that, I have never even really noticed it happening, never mind been bitten by it.
In my newly-installed Mountain Lion system, when I try to run an app that relies on X11, I get the following error message:
Apple's Web Page indicates that this is not the expected behavior:
X11 install on demand
X11 on Mountain Lion now uses install on demand. When you first launch an...
For anybody using screenshots. Remember that you can take one from the terminal without the background shadow using: screencapture -wxra ~/Desktop/screencap.png
And regardless of it is banner or alert style, the most recent 5 should stay in NC, and they all dissapear, not just as the actual notification, but also from NC
I'd bought MS Office which was allowed to use on 3 Mac OSX with same product key. It was/is working fine when I'd installed it on 1st Macbook Pro. When I'd installed it on my iMac then MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel are working fine with same product key but MS Office is not working and getting al...
Only the MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Pro with Retina display are supported for Power Nap. The reason for this is An SMC update is required to gain all the functionality of Power Nap, and these are the only models Apple has chosen to actively write the firmware updates to support the ...
Does anyone else find that the disc for Ubuntu 12.04 desktop (i386) fails to start Mac hardware? Here with a MacBookPro5,2 the boot process seems to stall – every time – but not at the same point every time.
Most mainstream things are well known what bugs are around (MS Office, Adobe, virtualization, etc...) so you won't waste a lot of time guessing why things are wonky. Most app store apps are great since the devs there are ahead of the curve on testing with new OS.
It's been painless for most, but when you have a critical work machine, think nothing of running an OS that's two years old. Not broken, don't fix it.
@bmike do you see any speed improvements? i just ordered an ssd. i'm thinking of installing my ssd and making sure that's all worked out before even thinking about ML
In previous versions of Safari the JavaScript console in the Developer Tools (aka Web Inspector) had a little 'clear' button at the bottom that emptied out console items, which was useful for getting rid of clutter between debug sessions.
As of Safari 6, the new Dev Tools don't seem to have such...
Whenever I edit my own answer, and click Save Edits, I get the dialog confirming that I want to leave the page:
It should just save my edits as I am trying to save them, not cancel them.
This is happening for me on Safari 5.1 / OSX. EDIT: Safari 6.0 now consistently reproduces this problem.
...
User prompt for address book access
This has only been officially announced for iOS 6 but quietly made it's way into Mountain Lion.
Your address book data is located in:
/Users/my_name/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
So far, I've used a firewall to controll read/write access on a per...
