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Selection of Finder's Second Window (Dave Lyons?)
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Selection of Finder's Second Window (Dave Lyons?)


  • Subject: Selection of Finder's Second Window (Dave Lyons?)
  • From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:14:09 -0500


This is probably a Dave Lyons question, but I will be happy to hear an answer from anybody :)


I've used the Finder's "selection" property innumerable times to write very useful scripts that operate on the selection in the frontmost window.

Is there a way to ask the Finder what the selection is a window other than the frontmost one? I was hoping for something like this:

items of window 2 whose selected is true

But I see there is no selected property of items. There is clearly a selected state, because I can see the selection status of those items in the secondary window. They will become "selection" when I switch focus to that window.

The reason I want to do this is because I have an idea for a script that will take a file from the front window and a file from the second window and do a "FileMerge" on them.

A sick workaround is to temporarily switch the front window out to get the second window's selection:

tell application "Finder"
	set file1 to item 1 of (selection as list)
	set index of window 2 to 1
	set file2 to item 1 of (selection as list)
	set index of window 2 to 1

	display dialog (file1 as string) & "/" & (file2 as string)
end tell

Is there a cleaner way?

Thanks!

Daniel
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