I am testing applescripts that I will use later in my OSX app. I\'m getting a 6 sec delay after the click button command below. After some research it seems that this is a
It seems click or axpress causes a big delay.
Instead - get position and use a third party shell script to do the clicking. Much Much faster.
using clicclik : https://www.bluem.net/en/mac/cliclick/
put in user library/application support/Click
set clickCommandPath to ((path to application support from user domain) as string) & "Click:cliclick"
set clickCommandPosix to POSIX path of clickCommandPath
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Pro Tools"
set frontmost to 1
tell button "Track List pop-up" of window 1
set {xPosition, yPosition} to position
set x to xPosition
set y to yPosition
end tell
do shell script quoted form of clickCommandPosix & " c:" & xPosition & "," & yPosition
key code 36 -- return key stroke
end tell
end tell