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What is the ACTION that selects clicks within a UI

By Mark Mangini @Mark_Mangini
    2021-04-11 20:40:36.167Z

    In Soundminer, the sort functions require clicking on the FIELD headings to change the sort values. I cannot find a UI click function in ACTIONS that achieves this. Can anyone help point me to that ACTION? Thanks.

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    1. Dustin Harris @Dustin_Harris
        2021-04-12 03:25:11.096Z

        Soundminer is finicky; the column names aren’t accessible to SoundFlow (they’re hidden in the Soundminer preference files)... so the only way I can think of doing it is ‘mouse click relative’ and finding the number of pixels from the anchor point of the window (typically top-left corner of the window, but configurable). Hope that helps!

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          Mark Mangini @Mark_Mangini
            2021-04-12 04:33:19.371Z

            Thanks but this seems wildly inefficient. Who has time to test every combination of pixel positions before landing on the right one? Surely there is a way to do this without guessing? SoundFlow would benefit from a graphic interface tool that measures pixel positions or uses snapshots (like other macro builders) to take this guesswork out of the equation.

            1. Hi Mark,

              Yes there is a way to do this without guessing - check Kitch's video here:

              1. I also addressed this in a separate thread (since this one became a little more generic):