De-lurk and Pop-up windows question
De-lurk and Pop-up windows question
- Subject: De-lurk and Pop-up windows question
- From: Tim Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:37:48 -0500
Hey all.
Been lurking for a week or so, and am a relative newbie scripter, at least
with AppleScript- I have a bit of PERL hanging out in the background, but
not too much.
Anyhow, the question I have is this- I'm trying to create a script to run at
start up that will create a number of pop-up windows. So far so good, The
catch is that I want them centered on the bottom of the screen, and I can't
seem to set the position of them in any way.
Here's the first code snippet, which positions this item in the lower left
corner of the desktop:
tell application "Finder"
activate
select file "Tim's Applications"
open selection
set position of container window of folder "Applications" of startup
disk to {446, 425}
set popup of window "Tim's Applications" to true
end tell
I also attempted to to position the window directly, in hopes that it would
transform, as with a mouse drag, into a popup as in
set position of container window of folder "Applications"
of startup disk to {394, 960}
Everything else that I've tried either results in errors, usually of the
"Wrong kind of window" variety.
It's starting to look to me as if the pop-up is limited strictly to a
Boolean T/F, and that a pop-up window just goes as far left as it can with
out hitting something, after which it becomes inaccessible to AppleScript.
Anyone got any suggestions?
TIA,
Tim