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Way to access these menu Items?

By Owen Granich-Young @Owen_Granich_Young
    2024-10-23 17:07:16.628Z

    Do they have a name for click menu item maybe?

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    1. Kitch Membery @Kitch2024-10-23 17:38:18.717Z

      Hi @Owen_Granich_Young,

      For Application specific items, they usually have a Roll of "AXMenuBarItem" and a Subrole of "AXMenuExtra", and are attached to the Application.

      What are you trying to achieve specifically?

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      1. In reply toOwen_Granich_Young⬆:
        Kitch Membery @Kitch2024-10-23 17:40:39.784Z

        I will say though, that they are often hard to access.

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        1. In reply toOwen_Granich_Young⬆:
          Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2024-10-23 17:49:46.583Z

          If you can discover the bundle id, it's sometimes possible to automate these apps.

          For instance, I can automate CleanShot X with this:

          
sf.ui.app("com.getcleanshot.app-setapp").getElement('AXExtrasMenuBar').popupMenuSelect({menuPath:["Hide Desktop Icons"]})

          Shout out to @raphaelsepulveda for cracking this code a while back!

          You can find the bundle id by running something like this in terminal:

          osascript -e 'id of app "CleanShot X"'

          https://forum.soundflow.org/-2296#post-3

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          1. OOwen Granich-Young @Owen_Granich_Young
              2024-10-23 18:29:32.029Z

              niftty, tbh QUIT and Open the app is working fine, was just wondering if Enable Disable would be sneakier.

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            • In reply toOwen_Granich_Young⬆:
              Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2024-10-23 17:53:46.762Z

              Some menu bar apps (like Dropbox) use custom GUI's that don't automate well like this.

              You can sometimes use .popupMenuSelect({isOption:true}) to access more functions for these type of apps.

              Here's an example of fetching paths for the Dropbox menubar app:

              log(sf.ui.app("com.getdropbox.dropbox").getElement('AXExtrasMenuBar').popupMenuFetchAllItems({isOption:true}).menuItems.map(x => x.path))
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              1. Chad Wahlbrink @Chad2024-10-23 19:07:07.146Z

                Also for fun, here are some ways to access some of the macOS Control Center Menu Bar Items

                Change Focus Mode

                
// Set Focus Mode
sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').getElement("AXExtrasMenuBar").getFirstWithTitle('Focus').elementClick()

sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').windows[0].children.whoseTitle.is('Work').first.elementWaitFor().element.elementClick({asyncSwallow:true});

sf.keyboard.press({keys:'escape'})

                Set Sound Output

                sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').getElement("AXExtrasMenuBar").getFirstWithTitle('Sound').elementClick()

sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').windows[0].children.whoseRole.is('AXScrollArea').first.elementWaitFor()

sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').windows[0].children.whoseRole.is('AXScrollArea').first.children.whoseTitle.is('Studio Display Speakers').first.elementClick({asyncSwallow:true})

sf.ui.app('com.apple.controlcenter').getElement("AXExtrasMenuBar").getFirstWithTitle('Sound').elementClick();

                NOTE- A Better Way to Set Audio Devices

                List your DeviceIDs to the SF Log with:

                log(sf.audio.getAudioDevices().devices)

                Outputs this to the log:

                [
{
        "DeviceId": 126,
        "DeviceName": "Universal Audio Thunderbolt",
        "IsActiveInput": false,
        "IsActiveOutput": false
    }
]

                Then you can use this to set the audio device:

                sf.audio.selectAudioDevice({deviceId:126})

                Toggle Audio Devices

                Or this to toggle Audio Devices:

                
// Use `log(sf.audio.getAudioDevices().devices)` to get device IDs
let device1 = 126;
let device2 = 50;

let activeAudioDevice = sf.audio.getAudioDevices().devices.filter(x => x.isActiveOutput)[0]

if (activeAudioDevice['DeviceID'] == device1) {
    sf.audio.selectAudioDevice({ deviceId: device2 })
} else {
    sf.audio.selectAudioDevice({ deviceId: device1 })
}
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                1. MMatt Friedman @Matt_Friedman
                    2024-11-01 16:03:07.699Z

                    I've been needing this for the longest time! Thank you for this!

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