Mac: Can't access menu of application

On Mac, you have to use App.focus() (see docs) to get the requested app back to the foreground after starting a script.

popup() and input() steel focus again. So after each usage, you have to App.focus() again.

Thx for the rapid response. Actually, I had already tried App.focus(), but this causes a popup with message to the effect "app quit unexpectedly" + 3 buttons - Ignore, Report... , Reopen. In fact the app has not quit. I'm also investigating starting the app from the command line, running Sikuli in the background. Any more suggestions would be very welcome!

Sorry, I meant to say 'starting Sikuli from the command line' above.

What Mac version?

What Sikuli version?

What is the app to be focused?

What happened, when running from command line?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 AM, RaiMan <
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> Your question #172755 on Sikuli changed:
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> RaiMan requested more information:
> What Mac version?
>

Mac OS X 10.6.8
3.4Ghz i7, 8GB

>
> What Sikuli version?
>

Sikuli X-1.0rc3 (r905)

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> What is the app to be focused?
>

The app to be focused is not known to 3rd parties. Its a java app. In the
dock it appears as "txdev"

>
> What happened, when running from command line?
>
When I enter the following at the command line:
 > open -g /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/sikuli-ide.sh
/Users/:terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli
I get an xcode window pop up showing the contents of sikuli-ide.sh:
#!/bin/sh
DIR=`dirname $0`
cd $DIR
./Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub $@

The first few lines of my Sikuli script are:

TxDev = App.focus("txdev")
if not TxDev.window():
    print "\nNO TXDEV\n"
    exit()

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 > open -g -a /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli

 - opens the ide in the background as desired but the script doesn't run.

Trying to run the script with -r (same results for --run):

 > open -g -a /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app '-r /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli'
open: invalid option -- r

 > open -g -a /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app '/Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli -r'
The file /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli -r does not exist.

 > open -g -a /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli --args -r

pop up dialog with message: Cannot launch Java application Uncaught exception in main method:
java.lang.NullPointerException

These are just a few of the many variations I've tried! Please advise!

--- running a Sikuli script from command line

On Mac: If you want to run a script (the IDE stays invisible):

In Terminal:
/Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/sikuli-ide.sh -r /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli

an alternative leaving the IDE totally out:
java -jar /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/Contents/Resources/Java/sikuli-script.jar /Users/terence.cooper/Documents/siku_1.sikuli

Uuups: just realized: the latest version reports an error at the end "[error] Can't run this Sikuli script: ...", but the script is run perfectly. So just ignore the message - I will report a bug.

If you want to hide the Terminal session automagically, put at the beginning of your script:
switchApp("Terminal")
type("h", KeyModifier.CMD)

--- using the App class feature

on Mac, this works:
# once at beginning of script
myApp = App("your-app")
if not myApp.window(): # check: open already?
      myApp.open() # open it
      while not myApp.window(): wait(1) # wait for app window, to be ready
myApp.focus() # give focus to app, can be used later as needed

"your-app" has to be the string, that you could use for your app to open it with the open -a Terminal command.

BTW: to access the menu of the app (once it is in foreground), you might use:

type(Key.F2, KeyModifier.CTRL)

to access the menu and use keyboard actions to navigate through the menu.

RaiMan, thanks for all the help, I'm well past these initial problems now.

Do you have any suggestions for increasing the reliability of text recognition?
And also, overall speed of execution?

Many thanks,

Terry.

cheers, keep on running ;-)

--- text recognition
with the current rc3(r905) this is still at the poor level of rc2.
Currently the developers are on the way, to implement improvements - but not yet released.
Have a look at the updated summary bug 710586

--- overall speed of execution
When searching the whole screen, you usually can not run more than 2-3 searches per second. The only way to speed things up is to narrow the region, where Sikuli should look for something.
Have a look at faq 1607 for more tips.