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sdef-to-dts is missing children elements
I'm not an expert in sdef or the underlying APIs here, but children elements of classes are a pretty big gap in the generated type definitions.
For example, the System Events application (Application('System Events')
) has at least 4 defined child elements:
![screen shot 2019-01-06 at 13 04 52](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/990299/50741566-b0878380-11b3-11e9-8126-8d6fc40eb693.png)
In most (all?) cases, these are accessible in at least 3 ways:
Application('System Events').processes(); // returns array
Application('System Events').processes['TextEdit']; // alias for processes.byName('TextEdit')
Application('System Events').processes[0]; // alias for processes.at(0)
If the generated types just included these methods for accessing children, it would make this 1000% more useful for UI automation. System Events relies heavily on child elements.
Thanks!
If only we could figure out the function signature of the elusive parameterTypeForNameInCommands()
, the translated definitions could be obtained within their own execution environment...