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 18:30:38 -0700
It works here fine.
What happens if you use the Finder's own terms?
tell application "Finder"
select items of folder "Incoming Images:Study Server:"
end tell
(I'm just wondering if perhaps the folder "Study Server" is not on a hard
disk "Incoming Images" but is on your user desktop, Or maybe it's not even a
folder? is that really the correct path?)
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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 20:55:06 -0400
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To: Applescript-Users <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Determining frontmost application in OS X
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Ok, so it must be my system, but it's broken and I can't seem to figure out
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why.
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the script :
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tell application "Finder"
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select items of alias "Incoming Images:Study Server:"
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end tell
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returns the error :
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--> Finder got an error: Can't get every item of alias "Incoming Images:Study
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Server:".
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But it was working fine until a few days ago.
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I don't even know where to begin looking for the problem, at this point
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Bryan Kaufman
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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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>>>
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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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>>>
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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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>>>
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>>> --Chris Nebel
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>>> AppleScript Engineering
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