Tick a checkbox only if it's not selected

Question

When UI Scripting in Applescript, you might want to tick a checkbox:

tell application \"System Events\"
  tell process \"Example Process\"
    click checkbox         


        

Answer 1

The Answer from Red_menace isn't fully clear, you could think making such thing like this:

set theCheckbox to checkbox "Random order" of tab group 1 of window "Desktop & Screen Saver"
            tell theCheckbox
                if false then click theCheckbox -- if false does not reference the 'theCheckbox', it is simply doing nothing
            end tell

Then it will never compute the if clause.

Therefore I changed to middle part to

set theCheckbox to checkbox "Change picture:" of tab group 1 of window "Desktop & Screen Saver"
        tell theCheckbox
            set checkboxStatus to value of theCheckbox as boolean
            if checkboxStatus is false then click theCheckbox                   
        end tell

And then it worked.