Not a valide command

[MrDesjardins]

Hello,

Running the following AppleScript:

tell script "Slack"
	set status "working"
end tell

I see Slack coming up and executing the / but at some point it fails with the following Slackbot message:

/statusworking is not a valid command. In Slack, all messages that start with the "/" character are interpreted as commands.
If you are trying to send a message and not run a command, try preceding the "/" with an empty space.

I see in the Events window:

tell application "Slack"
	activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
	keystroke "/"
	keystroke "status working"
	key code 36
	key code 36
end tell

I am running the script with the ScriptEditor on macOS Monterey 12.1

Thanks for script, and let me know if there is something I am not using properly.

[MrDesjardins]

For people having the same issue, instead of using the slack applescript library, I wrote an AppleScript that performs mostly what this library is trying to perform. It's my first AppleScript so, might not be the best code (got an issue with space that I fixed by explicitly sending 49 but it works.

tell application "Slack"
	activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
	keystroke "/"
	keystroke "update"
	key code 49
	keystroke "your"
	key code 49
	keystroke "status"
	delay 1
	key code 76
	delay 1
	set textBuffer to "Hello world!"
	repeat with i from 1 to count characters of textBuffer
		if character i of textBuffer = " " then
			key code 49
		else
			keystroke (character i of textBuffer)
		end if
		delay 0.05
	end repeat
	delay 0.1
	key code 76
end tell

[samknight]

Thanks for assisting others @MrDesjardins

What do you think is causing the issue from my library - I've assumed in the past it's a timing issue