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Re: Name of Active Process
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Re: Name of Active Process


  • Subject: Re: Name of Active Process
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:29:05 -0400

I find that doesn't work OMM (OS X 10.2.8). "name of EVERY process whose frontmost is true" returns a one-item list which the "tell application" statement doesn't like. Changing it to "name of SOME process whose frontmost is true" fixes it as it returns a string.

Marc [06/17/04 2:26:52 AM]

From: David Andrews <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Name of Active Process
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:06:10 -0400
To: AppleScript-Users Users <email@hidden>

Thanks for the suggestions. Unless you see something that is in poor
taste, I think I'll go with:

tell application "Finder" to set frontProcess to (name of every
process whose frontmost is true) as text
tell application "RealOne Player" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "RealOne Player"
click menu item "Zoom Window" of menu "Window" of menu bar item
"Window" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
tell application frontProcess to activate -- return to the process
that was interrupted

The above seem so work from the Script Editor, from the script menu and as an App.

On Jun 16, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Joseph Weaks wrote:

I recommend:

tell application "Finder" to set frontProcess to ((displayed name of
(path to frontmost application)) & return)

Because these two fail in some circumstances, such as when launched
from the Script Menu:
--tell application "Finder" to set frontProcess to (frontProcess &
(name of every process whose frontmost is true) & return)
--tell application "System Events" to set frontProcess to
(frontProcess & (name of every process whose frontmost is true))

Joe Weaks

On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:32 PM, David Andrews wrote:
[snip]
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