This user interface elements path, or specifier, tells the GUI Scripting system how to reach a specific user interface element, in this case a button, and what to do with it. See the AppleScript for the full, ugly details.) (Because Mail.app’s user interface has changed across various versions, and with different preference settings, the actual code is more complex. UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of front window The work of the script can be done by a single line that might look like this: click button "Load Images" of See this Apple Support Forum post for some details, and how to turn it off. Why don’t I let Mail load images automatically? Spammers use image loading to confirm the validity of an email address. Once I had an AppleScript that worked, it was simple to use FastScripts to trigger the script with a keyboard shortcut. What finally did it was using the GUI Scripting feature of AppleScript to tell the button to click itself. The hard part is triggering the Load Images button itself, by anything besides a mouse click. I looked for a way to add a keystroke to Load Images for more than five years before I finally found a way to do it. ![]() ![]() Because it’s not a menu item, there’s no easy way to add one. I like Apple Mail for Mac OS X, but one thing that irritates me to no end is that the Load Images button ( Load Remote Content in Mac OS X 10.10), which loads the images in a message on-demand, doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut.
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