window gone trick
window gone trick
- Subject: window gone trick
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:59:39 -0300
Haven't been reading hardly anything on the list recently, so maybe
this has been posted already. Apologies all round if it's a repeat.
You all knew that there was a way to "windowshade" a Finder window in
X with AppleScript - Sal figured that out ages ago. But maybe you
didn't know that there was a way to make open windows vanish
altogether. It's kind of odd, but is has good prank potential, for
those of you who like to goof with your friends.
Open a Finder window. Make sure the toolbar is showing.
Run this script.
tell application "Finder"
activate
set {x, y, z, t} to (bounds of window 1)
set bounds of window 1 to {x, y, z, y + 1}
end tell
Now you've got a windowshaded window (okay, the window is a pixel
deep now, but it's effectively windowshaded).
Now press Cmd-B. Poof! Window gone!
You can get it back with another Cmd-B and a click of the zoom
button. Unless you happen to switch windows, in which case you need
to do something else. You can still see it in the Windows menu, and
if you select it from the list, you see a featureless white bar
appear, with which you can do exactly nothing using a mouse, but if
you press Cmd-B again, your windowshaded window is back, and clicking
the zoom button gets you a fully opened window.
Note that the following will also windowshade a Finder window, but
the vanishing act won't work on it.
tell application "Finder"
activate
set {x, y, z, t} to (bounds of window 1)
set bounds of window 1 to {x, y, z, y}
end tell
If you run this script on a window *without* the tool bar showing,
then click on the show toolbar button, or press Cmd-B, you get
another odd thing happening - the toolbar area drops down, but it's
blank (I've had it both white and black in appearance).
Totally useless, but moderately interesting.
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