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Question #251588 on Sikuli changed:
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Summary changed to:
Mac 10.9 Maverick: How to solve assistive devices trouble - faq 2453

Description changed to:
see faq 2453

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Hi All,

I merely want to share my experiences here for others to learn and save
time...

I had a hard time getting past the 'assistive devices not enabled
dialog' when using SikuliX and finally found the not-so-obvious
solution. I am running a java junit test that runs SikuliX from within
eclipse on my Mac. I had been using this setup for some time without any
problem.

I upgraded to OSX 10.9.4 and upgraded from eclipse Kepler to eclipse
Luna.

I started getting that 'assistive devices' dialog from sikulix and could
not test anymore. I went to the System Preferences a zilion times. I did
the sqlite queries a million times. I added all my java versions there
and (in desparation) all the super folders of the java commands as well.
No such luck. I spare you all my other experiments... ;-)

Finally the following helped: remove the eclipse entry with sqlite and
start the test again. That entered a new eclipse entry in the db that I
could finally enable. Finally SikuliX worked again.

What surprised me was:
 - although Sikuli is run in a separate java process, the eclipse entry in the table made the difference. ( Maybe OSX looks up the parent process or to determine the assistive devices authorisation, I have no idea...)
 - although I had an eclipse entry in there it did not work. Evidently the entry was (a) not valid for my new eclipse version and (b) no new entry was added for this version of eclipse. I would regard this as an OSX bug.

Hope this helps others to save some time.

-Tom

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