"Access / Interact With / Click Specific Ul Element" action doesn't work on BeyondCompare

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
1

"Access / Interact With / Click Specific Ul Element" and "Click Button With Name In Active Window/Dialog" actions doesn't work on BeyondCompare Version 5.2 (build 31950) + BTT: 6.316

here's my trigger

[
  {
    "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1774866531.633702,
    "BTTTriggerType" : 0,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
    "BTTUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
    "BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "0",
    "BTTShortcutKeyboardType" : 2302,
    "BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
    "BTTNotesInsteadOfDescription" : 1,
    "BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : "r",
    "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 15,
    "BTTShortcutAdvancedModifierKeys" : "0",
    "BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1966080,
    "BTTOrder" : 5,
    "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
    "BTTActionsToExecute" : [
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1743025632.7903771,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "7390947F-3AFF-4624-B323-FBD8633FFEF6",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "r",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "62,56,15",
        "BTTOrder" : 0
      },
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1774866456.0340519,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "2839972F-8B16-49EB-AD76-02F75CC2596A",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 345,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Pause Execution  or  Delay Next Action (async  or  not blocking)",
        "BTTDelayNextActionBy" : "0.2",
        "BTTOrder" : 1
      },
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1774866365.219285,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "7D2C04F5-BFDF-4540-B120-CC07495F8A9E",
        "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "RIGHT",
        "BTTShortcutToSend" : "62,56,124",
        "BTTEnabled2" : 0,
        "BTTOrder" : 2
      },
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1774866481.791852,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "09FF478F-C429-4C47-9846-BECC5E4280B9",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 520,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Click Button With Name In Active Window or Dialog",
        "BTTGenericActionConfig" : "Alignment",
        "BTTEnabled2" : 0,
        "BTTOrder" : 3
      },
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1774866522.7033329,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "5B163C5D-0DE7-4DBE-9764-4FCB0369491F",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "41B36D54-996B-4EBE-9700-20C554969383",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 522,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Access  or  Interact With  or  Click Specific UI Element",
        "BTTActionInteractWithUIElementBringToFront" : 0,
        "BTTActionInteractWithUIElementAction" : "AXPress",
        "BTTActionInteractWithUIElementOnlyFocusedWindow" : "0",
        "BTTActionInteractWithUIElementOptions" : "AXPress",
        "BTTActionHyperkeyExcludeShift" : "Application{\"Beyond Compare\"} -> AXWindows[0]Window{\"A window\"} -> AXChildren[5]Sheet{\"A window\"} -> AXChildren[1]RadioButton{\"Format\"}",
        "BTTHyperKeyNamedTrigger" : "AXPress",
        "BTTOrder" : 5
      }
    ],
    "BTTGestureNotes" : "Open Rules and go to aligment tab"
  }
]
2

Unfortunately cross platform apps like this are often problematic with macOS accessibility stuff. I most likely will not be able to fix this, but I'll have a look at the trial.

3

Thank you. Something changed either on BTT or BC end because it was working pretty consistently, however 100% sure when it stopped since I've updated BC few days ago and yesterday BTT (big jump from 6.040 to 6.316), but I noticed it after BTT update.

4

could you point me to the element you are trying to trigger? The main UI of beyond compare doesn't seem to allow any Accessibility scripting, is this in some extra window?

Has maybe the UI path changed in a recent BC version?

5

It is an element in a sub-window (it is not a whole new macOS window, it's within BTT itself). Any of the tabs marked in red are I cannot access:

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I also thought that the path was changed, but I re-recorded it and it is till not working

The sub-window itself you can open via "Session/Session Settings..." or a shortcut.

6

Did you somehow enable Accessibility support for BC? (because I can not even record the path here)

7

Nope, I've checked and Accessibility support is not enabled.

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The red rectangle on "Alignment" tab is from BTT

8

Mhh I'm not sure, I can't get it to allow accessibility access at all. I have a slightly newer version Version 5.2.1 (build 32035) but that should probably not make a difference. (Other tools like UI Browser also seem to fail doing anything with BC on my machine)

9

I am on that version too, I've updated it yesterday.