MacOS – How to make a colour clicker using AppleScript

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How can AppleScript be used to make the mouse cursor search for a colour on the screen and click on it when found and return to its starting position after?

How to make a script that can do this process:

define a colour by selecting it from a screenshot
search on that defined colour and click it then return back to starting position

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Consider using Sikuli to implement your task rather than AppleScript:

Sikuli automates anything you see on the screen. It uses image recognition to identify and control GUI components. It is useful when there is no easy access to a GUI's internal or source code.

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MacOS – iTunes 12: How to cycle through View Options with script/shortcut

Use the select command to select the row.

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "iTunes"
        set frontmost to true 
        delay 1
        tell pop up button 2 of window 1
            click
            tell (select row 5 of table 1 of pop over 1) to click UI element 1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

AppleScript – Code to Click on Menu Bar Item

There's a scripting addition called "AppleScript Toolbox" (it's an osax). Get it at https://astoolbox.wordpress.com/

With that, you can simply write:

AST click at {10, 20}

That clicks into the menu bar, for instance, and opens the Apple menu.

If you want to preserve the original cursor position first, use this:

set origPos to AST mouse point location

And to restore it use:

AST set mouse point location origPos

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MacOS – iTunes 12: How to cycle through View Options with script/shortcut

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