Sidecar Toggle

[mikelxc]

Use "sc" to enable and disable sidecar.

 

KNOWN ISSUES: only supports English systems at this moment. And you have to turn on "show mirroring options in the menu bar"

 

Download Link

https://github.com/mikelxc/sidecar-alfredworkflow/releases/download/sc/Sidecar.alfredworkflow

Edited August 3, 2020 by mikelxc

[Tony D]

Is there a version that works with MacOS Monterey? 

[Tony D]

I found a script replacement that seems to work on Monterey 12.6 here:

 

https://github.com/geofftaylor/connect-sidecar/issues/10#issuecomment-1188663732

[TomBenz]

3 hours ago, Tony D said:

I found a script replacement that seems to work on Monterey 12.6 here:

 

https://github.com/geofftaylor/connect-sidecar/issues/10#issuecomment-1188663732

It doesn't work on Ventura. Anybody that can suggest a work around or script update? This is code where it is failing:

 

 

tell application "System Settings"

reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"

end tell

[kraig85]

On 10/7/2022 at 10:03 AM, TomBenz said:

It doesn't work on Ventura. Anybody that can suggest a work around or script update? This is code where it is failing:

 

 

tell application "System Settings"

reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.displays"

end tell

 

Have you tried...

 

do shell script "open -b com.apple.systempreferences /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane" ?

[TomBenz]

23 minutes ago, kraig85 said:

 

Have you tried...

 

do shell script "open -b com.apple.systempreferences /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane" ?

Thanks. This is working. How to integrate this with the overall code? The underlined line is giving error.

 

do shell script "open -b com.apple.systempreferences /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane"

 

use AppleScript version "2.4"

set iPadName to "iPad" -- TODO: Change to the name of your iPad

 

tell application "System Events"

tell process "System Preferences"

delay 0.8

click window "Displays"

tell pop up button "Add Display" of window "Displays"

click

delay 0.1

tell (last menu item of menu 1 whose name contains iPadName)

click it

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

 

tell application "System Settings" to close window 1

[vitor]

@TomBenz System Settings (i.e. on Ventura) are quite broken and not as automatable (let’s hope that is a ”yet”). You’re asking for help on doing GUI automation on unfinished software, so whatever you do now may turn out to be wasted. Plus, most people are not on Ventura, so there are fewer who can help. That is the nature and disadvantage of installing betas.

[TomBenz]

1 hour ago, vitor said:

@TomBenz System Settings (i.e. on Ventura) are quite broken and not as automatable (let’s hope that is a ”yet”). You’re asking for help on doing GUI automation on unfinished software, so whatever you do now may turn out to be wasted. Plus, most people are not on Ventura, so there are fewer who can help. That is the nature and disadvantage of installing betas.

thanks @vitorI understand and can wait for the official release of Ventura. I installed Ventura after public beta 8/9 recently and it has been working well. Alfred is also working without problem. Just fyi.

[kraig85]

On 10/10/2022 at 6:06 AM, TomBenz said:

Thanks. This is working. How to integrate this with the overall code? The underlined line is giving error.

 

do shell script "open -b com.apple.systempreferences /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane"

 

use AppleScript version "2.4"

set iPadName to "iPad" -- TODO: Change to the name of your iPad

 

tell application "System Events"

tell process "System Preferences"

delay 0.8

click window "Displays"

tell pop up button "Add Display" of window "Displays"

click

delay 0.1

tell (last menu item of menu 1 whose name contains iPadName)

click it

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

 

tell application "System Settings" to close window 1

As a temp work around (and hoping Vitor is right with the 'yet' part), I've used this script by placing the screen mirroring icon in the menu bar and copying from automator's watch me do - bearing in mind that my script has British English spellings of centre etc.)

 

-- Click the “Screen Mirroring” menu bar item. set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "click menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1 of application process \"Control Centre\"" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) -- Click the “<fill in title>” tickbox. set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "click checkbox 3 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window \"Control Centre\" of application process \"Control Centre\"" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) on doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds)     set endDate to (current date) + timeoutSeconds     repeat         try             run script "tell application \"System Events\"
" & uiScript & "
end tell"             exit repeat         on error errorMessage             if ((current date) > endDate) then                 error "Can not " & uiScript             end if         end try     end repeat end doWithTimeout

[Tony D]

On 10/21/2022 at 6:23 AM, kraig85 said:

 

 

 

Looks like the formatting got lost on your post Kraig.

 

Edited October 26, 2022 by Tony D

[Tony D]

Did anyone get a script working in MacOS Ventura 13.0 yet?  

[kraig85]

On 11/3/2022 at 2:58 AM, Tony D said:

Did anyone get a script working in MacOS Ventura 13.0 yet?  

ta-da!!

 

do shell script "open -b com.apple.systempreferences /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane"

use AppleScript version "2.4"

set iPadName to "iPad Pro"

tell application "System Events"

          repeat until (exists window "Displays" of application process "System Settings")

                    delay 0.1

          end repeat

          tell process "System Settings"

                    tell pop up button 1 of group 1 of group 2 of splitter group 1 of group 1 of window "Displays"

                              click

                              delay 0.1

                              tell (last menu item of menu 1 whose name contains iPadName)

                                        click it

                             end tell

                    end tell

          end tell

end tell

tell application "System Settings" to quit

[Tony D]

Thank you @kraig85 - works perfect and is fast!

 

[juch3059]

Can somebody guide how to install this script in Alfred? 

[kraig85]

53 minutes ago, juch3059 said:

Can somebody guide how to install this script in Alfred? 

 

I've created this workflow template for you (I think) - I've never actually used GitHub before (still a newbie) so fingers crossed it works.

 

https://github.com/kraig85/myalfredworkflows

[peppy76]

hi, is there a way to use this script to share the screen to an appletv? the appletv is named "Wohnzimmer"?