Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- Subject: Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:55:25 -0700
On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 05:32 AM, email@hidden
wrote:
The question is, how to figure out which application is the frontmost
one. Telling the Finder to get the processes gives me a list, but the
first item in the list is always "loginwindow."
tell application "Finder"
get the name of every process
end tell
(result below)
{"loginwindow", "Finder", "AEServer", "Dock", "SystemUIServer",
"PhotoStickies", "MooSB", "Show Desktop", "Key Xing Listener", "Palm
Desktop Background", "Transport Monitor", "MoonMenuXBackgrounder", "ASM
Controller", "System Events", "Mail", "SecurityAgent", "Internet
Explorer", "System Preferences", "Script Editor"}
Can I get this list sorted "front to back?"
If you want the last item of the list, you could say "last item of
the_list" or "item -1 of the_list" (negative indicies go from the end).
The problem is, that won't tell you the frontmost one, because that's
not how the list is ordered. It's actually not specified what order the
processes are in, but it happens (currently) to be in launch order, so
the last one is the most recently launched.
Fortunately, processes have a "frontmost" property. If you substitute
"get the name of processes whose frontmost is true", you should get a
list of one string, e.g. {"Mail"}.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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