Detect Displays Applescript Trigger

detect-displays.scpt

# This is an Applescript to trigger the Detect Displays functionality quickly on OS X
# 1. save this to a file with a `.scpt` extension
# 2. make sure that the Displays menu is set to display in the OS X menu bar
# 3. use your favorite quick access app (Spotlight, LaunchBar, Quicksilver, etc...) to call the script
#
# See: http://top-frog.com/2010/05/29/automatically-download-chromium-nightly-builds/ for a 
# caveat if you have trouble and are using AppleScript when you have Adobe applications installed
  
to click_menu_extra at menu_list
     tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"'s menu bar 1
         click (first menu bar item whose value of attributes contains menu_list's beginning)
         repeat with item_name in rest of menu_list
             click (first menu item of result's menu 1 whose name is item_name)
             delay 0.5
         end repeat
     end tell
 end click_menu_extra
  
 click_menu_extra at {"displays", "Detect Displays"}