Right Click with AppleScript

Question

How do I preform a right click with applescript?

is there something in particular you are try to do with an application what is the over goal ? — mcgrailm, Apr 15 '11 at 04:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '11 at 11:38

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You can use my MouseTools unix executable found here. At the bottom of the web page are examples and applescripts that show how to use it.

answered Apr 15 '11 at 11:38

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Excellent tool! Thanks for making it available. – SSteve Sep 04 '11 at 22:23
Glad you like it SSteve. Good luck! – regulus6633 Sep 04 '11 at 22:50

Clark · Answer 2 · 2011-04-15T03:18:11.940

You have to use a third party macro program like Keyboard Maestro or Quickeys. Quickeys would be my suggestion as it's very, very nice for automation and does a lot more including text substitution. It's also very scriptable itself via Applescript. So you can setup a macro to control a non-scriptable application and then call that via Applescript.

With Quickeys you could do a right click by setting up a macro to do it and then call it via.

tell application "QuicKeys"
   play shortcut named "myclick"
end tell

There used to be a few OSAX for Applescript that were free that did this but they are no longer supported and I think were never ported to Intel.

Right Click with AppleScript

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