Dumping my experiments trying to get consistent textfield objects back in Hammerspoon with asmagill's asm lib

hammerspoon_asm.lua

logger = hs.logger.new('explore', 'debug')
ax = require("hs._asm.axuielement")
inspect = hs.inspect.inspect

function getApplication(element)
  return ax.applicationElementForPID(element:pid())
end

key = hs.hotkey.new({ "cmd", "alt", "ctrl" }, "0", nil, function()
  -- logger.i(inspect(system:attributeValue('AXFocusedUIElement')))
  -- if true then return end

  -- local element = hs.uielement.focusedElement()
  -- logger.i(inspect(element:selectedText()))

  -- if true then return end

  -- local application = ax.applicationElement(hs.application.frontmostApplication())
  -- local elements = application:getAllChildElements()

  -- logger.i(inspect(elements))

  -- if true then return end

  local system = ax.systemWideElement()
  local element = system:attributeValue('AXFocusedUIElement')

  if not element then
    logger.i("No focused UI element\n==================")
    logger.i("system: " .. inspect(system:allAttributeValues(true)))
    logger.i(inspect(system:attributeValues()))

    return
  end

  local role = element:role()

  logger.i("role: " .. role)

  local application = getApplication(element)
  application:setAttributeValue('AXManualAccessibility', true)

  -- logger.i(inspect(application:attributeNames()))

  logger.i(inspect(element:dynamicMethods()))

  if role == "AXTextField" or role == "AXTextArea" then
    logger.i("in a text box")

    -- selectionRange = element:attributeValue('AXSelectedTextRange')

    -- selectionLength = selectionRange["len"]
    -- cursorLocation = selectionRange["loc"]

    -- value = element:attributeValue('AXValue')
    -- logger.i(inspect(value))

    -- element:setSelectedTextRange()
    -- element:setAttributeValue('AXSelectedTextRange', "pos=0 len=0")
    logger.i("selected: " .. inspect(element:selectedTextRange()))

    element:setSelectedTextRange({
      location = 0,
      length = 3
    })

    logger.i(inspect(element:allAttributeValues()))
    logger.i("----------")
    logger.i(inspect(element:parameterizedAttributeNames()))
  end
end)

key:enable()