Re: Script to Cycle Through Apps?
Re: Script to Cycle Through Apps?
- Subject: Re: Script to Cycle Through Apps?
- From: steve harley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:50:43 -0600
on 20 Oct 2004, at 11:14 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:05 PM, steve harley wrote:
set random_app to item (random number from 1 to length of
the_apps) of the_apps
This seems to work:
tell application "System Events"
set the_apps to every application process whose visible is true
set random_app to some item of the_apps
set frontmost of random_app to true
end tell
yes, but Michelle also remembered the "tell application (name of
process)" trick; her solution is better still
Actually, it's that I didn't think of "set frontmost of random_app to
true", and I knew how to activate an application; I didn't think of it
as a trick.
But why is mine better? Seems to me that either would work.
because frontmost is designated read only, so i disobeyed the
dictionary by using it.. i'm also not sure frontmost and active are
really the same thing (are they?)
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