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sdef-to-dts is missing children elements

Open modest opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

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:

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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!

modest avatar Jan 06 '19 21:01 modest

If only we could figure out the function signature of the elusive parameterTypeForNameInCommands(), the translated definitions could be obtained within their own execution environment...

modest avatar Jan 06 '19 23:01 modest