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Apple Script to click Show Keyboard Viewer

I am new to Apple Script. After many trials, I got a working script. But I have some questions.

  1. I am not quite sure what does below code mean. What does menu bar 2 referring to?
tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
  1. I am not sure if I can believe this script is going to work in the previous MacOS versions. I don't care about very old versions but I do for recent versions. e.g. Big Sur or Ventura This question might sounds bit odd, but do you think I can say this script is going to work across multiple versions of macOS? If it was swift programming, I can say it's going to work for a while even if apple deprecated an API. But I am not sure if I can say that for apple script.

Below is a full working script.

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "TextInputMenuAgent"
        tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
            click
            tell menu 1
                if exists menu item "Show Keyboard Viewer" then
                    click menu item "Show Keyboard Viewer"
                else
                    click menu item "Hide Keyboard Viewer"
                end if
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

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Solution 
  • tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2

    The number here is something we should infer using a tool. For example, Xcode > Open Developer Tool > Accessibility Inspector.