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1. Fastscripts lnot allowed assistive access mac os x#
2. Fastscripts lnot allowed assistive access install#

The System Preferences app should open, and display the Accessibility section of the Security & Privacy preference pane.If GUI Scripting is not enabled, you’ll see the following dialog from the script, explaining that GUI Scripting must be enabled.You might prefer to use Keyboard Maestro, or Alfred, or any of a dozen similar utilities. I provide instructions for using FastScripts on the Load Images AppleScript project page.

Fastscripts lnot allowed assistive access install#

Install the Load Images AppleScript however you want.Using the Load Images AppleScript with Mavericks By default, the list of applications that can use GUI Scripting is empty.Īll of this means that the way the Load Images AppleScript tries to activate GUI Scripting has completely changed under Mavericks, and the security dialog that appears is a bit confusing. The new security posture is accompanied by a new security dialog, and a move for the controls, to the Accessibility tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane. Only the apps that need it should be able to use it. In Mavericks, though, it’s considered a security control, and enabled on an application-by-application basis.

Fastscripts lnot allowed assistive access mac os x#

In versions of Mac OS X before Mavericks, GUI Scripting was a global setting, either on or off for the entire system, and the on/off switch was in the Accessibility preference pane. If it isn’t, it asks you to turn it on, by opening the System Preferences app to the appropriate place. So, the first thing the Load Images script does is make sure GUI Scripting is turned on. GUI Scripting is built in, but disabled by default. It’s cumbersome, but it lets you activate almost any user interface element. GUI Scripting is a built-in feature of Mac OS X, and it essentially amounts to saying “click the third button of the third scroll area of the first content pane of the top window”.

The script uses GUI Scripting to trigger the button click. If you’re using the script with Mac OS X 10.9, you need to give the script permission to control your Mac, and the process isn’t as intuitive or as clear as it could be.

There are some important changes to the script’s behavior in Mavericks. The original post has the download link, and the script contains the version history, and a lot of details in the comments. I’ve updated the Load Images AppleScript that lets you load images in a Mail.app message via a keystroke, to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”.