Re: Insert text and paste command
Re: Insert text and paste command
- Subject: Re: Insert text and paste command
- From: Adam Wuellner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:19:30 -0500
On 4/14/05, Dr. Barbara Mueller <email@hidden> wrote:
> >>set myText to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
> >>tell application "System Events"
> >> set frontmost of process "TextEdit" to true
> >> keystroke myText
> >>end tell
> >
> >Ok, thanks kai, this works in TextEdit but I need that it works in
> >every application.
> >So the following logical question is: is there a way to determine
> >the name of the fronmost application?
> >I'll search it by myself, but if anyone knows... :-)
>
> Try this:
>
> tell application "Finder" to set theApp to name of (every process
> whose frontmost is true) as string
This is getting a little circular, isn't it? Could it really be that
one has to set the frontmost property of the application whose
frontmost is true, to true??? I'm sorry that I have nothing more
constructive to add... this just seems so bizarre...
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