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AppleScript that uses GUI Scripting to toggle the "Position Lock" button in the Edit page (as of Resolve 18.1.4, you can't map a keyboard shortcut to this in the native keyboard Shortcuts prefs). This also requires 'clicliclick' (available from Homebrew). Note that the checkbox index is unfortunately a moving target in Resolve. In Resolve 18.1.4…
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AppleScript example that uses GUI Scripting to toggle the "Position Lock" button in the Edit page | |
(as of Resolve 18.1.4, you can't map a keyboard shortcut to this in the native keyboard Shortcuts | |
prefs). | |
This also requires 'cliclick' (available from Homebrew). | |
Note that the checkbox index is unfortunately a moving target in Resolve. In Resolve 18.1.4, | |
"checkbox 21" will target the Position Lock button ONLY if the "Media Pool" and "Edit Index" panels | |
are open in the Edit Page. If any other panels are open, the checkbox index will change! | |
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global xPos | |
global yPos | |
activate application "DaVinci Resolve" | |
tell application "System Events" | |
tell process "DaVinci Resolve" | |
try | |
tell checkbox 21 of group 1 of window 1 | |
set {xPosition, yPosition} to position | |
set {xSize, ySize} to size | |
end tell | |
-- modify offsets if hot spot is not centered: | |
set xPos to xPosition + (xSize div 2) | |
set yPos to yPosition + (ySize div 2) | |
end try | |
end tell | |
end tell | |
-- note this shell command must be outside of the try/tell block, | |
-- otherwise you'll get a -10004 error. S | |
-- See: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4719415 | |
-- I use "cliclick" (available via Homebrew) for the actual click action, | |
-- as the AppleScript "click at" command doesn't seem to work reliably | |
-- on new versions of macOS. | |
do shell script "/opt/homebrew/bin/cliclick m:" & xPos & "," & yPos | |
do shell script "/opt/homebrew/bin/cliclick c:." |
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