Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- Subject: Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:17:39 -0700
Where do you hat, Bryan? Of course "items of" is working! Chris was just
saying that the ordering of the list of processes is ("currently" -?) in
launch order, not UI layer order.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: bryan <email@hidden>
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Reply-To: email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:23:06 -0400
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
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So, now "...whose..." is working but "items of..." isn't?
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When did that happen? I made the 'mistake' of upgrading from
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10.1.2b3 to 10.1.5 and broke my scripts.
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I tried going back to 10.1.2b3 with no luck.
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Anybody have any ideas?
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Bryan Kaufman
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Christopher Nebel wrote:
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> On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 05:32 AM, email@hidden
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>> The question is, how to figure out which application is the frontmost
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>> one. Telling the Finder to get the processes gives me a list, but the
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>> first item in the list is always "loginwindow."
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>> tell application "Finder"
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>> get the name of every process
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>> end tell
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>> (result below)
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>> {"loginwindow", "Finder", "AEServer", "Dock", "SystemUIServer",
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>> "PhotoStickies", "MooSB", "Show Desktop", "Key Xing Listener", "Palm
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>> Desktop Background", "Transport Monitor", "MoonMenuXBackgrounder", "ASM
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>> Controller", "System Events", "Mail", "SecurityAgent", "Internet
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>> Explorer", "System Preferences", "Script Editor"}
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>> Can I get this list sorted "front to back?"
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> If you want the last item of the list, you could say "last item of
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> the_list" or "item -1 of the_list" (negative indicies go from the end).
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> The problem is, that won't tell you the frontmost one, because that's
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> not how the list is ordered. It's actually not specified what order the
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> processes are in, but it happens (currently) to be in launch order, so
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> the last one is the most recently launched.
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> Fortunately, processes have a "frontmost" property. If you substitute
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> "get the name of processes whose frontmost is true", you should get a
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> list of one string, e.g. {"Mail"}.
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> --Chris Nebel
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> AppleScript Engineering
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