Automating Screenflick 2 Recordings

You can setup automated Screenflick v2 recordings using AppleScript. (For Screenflick 3, use Automator instead.) Combine them with Automator workflows and Calendar alarms, and you can do quite a bit.

Below is an example script which starts a timed Screenflick recording of a specific area of the screen. The on run block makes this suitable for dropping into an Automator workflow.



on run {input, parameters}

-- Bring Screenflick to the front

tell application "Screenflick" to activate

-- Start a recording

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Screenflick"

-- Open the Recording view

click menu item "Recording" of menu "Window" of menu bar 1

-- Set the recording timer

tell window "Screenflick"

-- Turn the timer off

tell checkbox "Set Timer"

if (its value as boolean) then click it

end tell

-- Turn the timer on

click checkbox "Set Timer"

tell sheet 1

set value of text field 1 to "0" -- hours

set value of text field 2 to "0" -- minutes

set value of text field 3 to "10" -- seconds

keystroke return

end tell

end tell

-- Start Recording (Open the Screen Selection view)

click menu item "Start Recording" of menu "Record" of menu bar 1

delay 1

-- Set the screen area to record

tell window "Selection Window"

perform action "AXRaise" -- makes the window frontmost

tell pop up button "Selection Type"

click -- Show the menu

click menu item "Fixed Size" of menu 1

end tell

-- Set the left / bottom of the selected area in global screen points

-- Must set the values to strings, not integers

set value of text field "Left" to "100"

set value of text field "Bottom" to "100"

-- Triggers Screenflick to use those values

-- (only confirming one of the fields is fine)

perform action "AXConfirm" of text field "Left"

-- Set width and height of the recording area

set value of text field "Width" to "800"

set value of text field "Height" to "600"

perform action "AXConfirm" of text field "Width"

end tell

-- Now start recording

click button "Record" of window "Selection Window"

end tell

end tell

return input

end run