This is how I did it;
set MyScreenResolution to paragraphs of (do shell script
"system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType|grep Resolution|awk -F\\
'{print $2}{print $4}'")
set horiz to item 1 of MyScreenResolution --Get horizontal pixels
set vert to item 2 of MyScreenResolution --Get Vertical pixels
I've used a variation of that before, stevan. While not particularly
fast, system_profiler seems to return the the most consistently
accurate results.
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tell (do shell script "/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType |
grep Resolution") to {(word 2) div 1, (word 4) div 1}
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A faster method, albeit somewhat more verbose and less robust (not
recognising unsupported resolutions), might be something like:
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tell application "System Events" to tell property list item 1 of
property list item 1 of property list item "DisplaySets" of property
list file (local domain's preferences folder's path &
"com.apple.windowserver.plist") to {(value of property list item
"Width") div 1, (value of property list item "Height") div 1}
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On 03/19/07 1:39 PM, "Hugh Dixon" <email@hidden> wrote:
tell application "Finder" to get bounds of window of desktop
Yeah - quite handy for single displays, Hugh - although I believe the
results for multiple displays may be slightly less useful in this
particular context. I guess the System Events version might suffer
from a similar issue:
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tell application "System Events" to size of process "Finder"'s scroll
area 1
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Or, using Jon's Commands:
get bounds of item 1 of (screen list)
Again, very useful - though not (yet) on an Intel machine.
In the unlikely event that someone doesn't yet have a copy of Jon's
Commands, they might like to visit Jon's website:
<http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/>
On 19 Mar 2007, at 16:20, David Hoerl wrote:
I'd like to get the dimensions of the visible region of the main
monitor. Something like this:
set mainScreen to call method "mainScreen" of class "NSScreen"
set [x1, y2, x2, y2] to call method "visibleFrame" of
mainScreen
I'd like to do this in a vanilla script, not within AppleStudio. I
looked in Standard Additions but didn't see it there.
The call method isn't accessible directly from vanilla AppleScript,
David - although you could use another app as a stand-in for the AS
Studio Cocoa bridge. Calls could, for example, be made via Automator.
This might be considered a bit cumbersome - especially if Automator
has to be launched just to make such a call. However, FWIW:
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tell application "Automator"
set mainScreen to call method "mainScreen" of class "NSScreen"
set [x1, y2, x2, y2] to call method "visibleFrame" of mainScreen
end tell
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A better option for this kind of thing (IMO) would be a relatively
lightweight FBA that focused on just this functionality.
AppleScriptKit, by Daniel Jalkut was available at:
<http://www.red-sweater.com/AppleScriptKit.zip>
However, the link currently seems to be broken. Anyone with more
recent info? (Daniel - you there?)
The syntax would be exactly the same as that shown above - apart from
the change of application name. (In fact, one wonders why such a tool
isn't already bundled with OS/AppleScript software - to give the
approach much more of a vanilla flavour...)
