Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- Subject: Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
- From: bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:55:06 -0400
Ok, so it must be my system, but it's broken and I can't seem to figure out why.
the script :
tell application "Finder"
select items of alias "Incoming Images:Study Server:"
end tell
returns the error :
--> Finder got an error: Can't get every item of alias "Incoming Images:Study Server:".
But it was working fine until a few days ago.
I don't even know where to begin looking for the problem, at this point
Bryan Kaufman
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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Where do you hat, Bryan? Of course "items of" is working! Chris was just
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saying that the ordering of the list of processes is ("currently" -?) in
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launch order, not UI layer order.
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--
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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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>> wrote:
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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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>>>
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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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>>>
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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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>>>
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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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