**Edit: My initial question does not appear to have a solution. Instead I used an alternate method. Scroll down to see the alternate method.**

I'm looking for a solution to mute my mic in Discord that I can then add to my touchbar via bettertouchtool.

BTT cannot send key combos to Discord for whatever reason. As far as I can tell I have two options. 

1. Use applescript to activate the Discord window, send the key press, then hide the window. This works, but flashing the application up for a moment is annoying. Worse when it's on another desktop as it will flip desktops over and then back.
2. Use applescript to click the top menu [![(this menu)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhCYk.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhCYk.png) to click the Discord menu, and work down through the UI elements to click the Mute button.

I'm not experienced enough with applescript to make the second option work, but I think it could work. Using UI browser I was able to get the path to the UI element:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndEBP.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndEBP.png)

How can I make this work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

[![Edit HR](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TTGdN.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TTGdN.png)

ALTERNATE SOLUTION
==================

 What I am wanting to do here does not appear to be possible, so I'm just muting my mic at the OS level instead of Discord, and then adding a toggle button to my touchbar with BetterTouchTool. This has the added benefit of working system wide. Here's video of it in action:

![GIF](https://i.imgur.com/zV2X5AB.gif)

[Streamable](https://streamable.com/xm793)

In case anyone else was wanting to do this these are the steps I took:

**1.** Create a new Applescript with the following script:

```
property storedInputLevel : missing value
if input volume of (get volume settings) is 0 then
    set volume input volume storedInputLevel
    return 1
else
    tell application "System Events"
        set storedInputLevel to input volume of (get volume settings)
    end tell
    set volume input volume 0
    return 2
end if

```

Save the script somewhere.

**2.** Open up Better Touch Tool and create a new Touch Bar widget and set the widget to `Run Apple Script and Show Return Value`
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lANUq.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lANUq.png)

**3.** In the window that pops up after selecting `Run Apple Script and Show Return Value` you'll want to erase the test line in the box and give your widget a name:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v9ggi.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v9ggi.png)

**3.a** Click the appearance and settings button

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OeRPt.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OeRPt.gif)

**4.** In the `Appearance and Settings` window you'll want to configure the following settings:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAiw6.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAiw6.jpg)

You don't *need* to set an alternate background color, but it helps to see you're muted at a glance.

For the icons you can use these:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwYaS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwYaS.png)[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wYKP3.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wYKP3.png)

Make sure that you set the `Alternate color and icon if result matches regex` setting to **2**.

Click **Save**. 

**5.** On the new widget you created click on the drop down for `Predefined action` and choose `Run Apple Script (async in background)`.

![enter image description here](https://i.imgur.com/apbqS2K.gif)

**6.** In the window that popped up you'll want to click on `Select Apple Script File` and then `Choose Apple Script file from Disk` and browse to the script file you created earlier. Click save and you're done.

![image13](https://i.imgur.com/PvvUns2.gif)

That's it. Your widget should toggle your mic on and off and the change should be reflected in the icon on your touch bar.