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Re: Microsoft Word - bringing a window to the front...


  • Subject: Re: Microsoft Word - bringing a window to the front...
  • From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:30:36 -0700

Paul;

You wrote that I shouldn't expect Word to un-minimize a window just because I told it to bring the window to the front.

I disagree. Word ends up in a state where the 'frontmost' window is invisible. Does this make any sense?

Plus, when you attempt to open a file that is already open in Word, the window snaps to the front, even if it is minimized. The only problem with this is that Word, unlike most other applications, has tried to combine 'open' with 'revert', consequent you are faced with a dialog box when you tell it to open a file that's already open (and note that Word is so, well, stupid, that even if the open file hasn't been modified, it still asks you).

I can't find anything in AppleScript that allows me to make a minimized window visible. Possibly I can do this in Visual Basic, but I don't really want to program in Visual Basic, the advantage of using AppleScript is that I can control multiple applications without having to learn all the different scripting languages (e.g. I could program Acrobat in Javascript, but it's a lot more productive to do so in AppleScript).

- David Crowe
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