Re: System Events (was Re: Frontmost)
Re: System Events (was Re: Frontmost)
- Subject: Re: System Events (was Re: Frontmost)
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:26:33 -0400
Dumb question time - what is this "script menu" of which you speak?
On 5/5/05, Hudson Barton <email@hidden
> wrote:Indeed, "System Events" seems to be inaccessible when run from the
Script Menu (but not when run in any other context). Take this
simple script for example:
tell application "System Events"
display dialog "hello"
end tell
At 9:56 AM -0400 5/5/05, Hudson Barton wrote:
>Further to my earlier message.... if the script containing this code
>is called by another script, then it works, and if it is run from
>the "Script Editor" it works. But if it is run directly from the
>Script Menu, it does not.
>
>H.
>
>
>At 7:44 AM -0400 5/5/05, Hudson Barton wrote:
>>I'm trying to run a script from the script menu and then return the
>>user to application he was in before the script ran. The following
>>works just fine when run from the Script Editor, but not when run
>>from the Script Menu. Why?
>>
>>tell application "System Events"
>> set devant to (name of every process whose frontmost is true
>>and visible is true and name is not "System Events") as string
>>end tell
>>
>>----Do stuff here including opening 1 or more other applications
>>
>>tell application "System Events"
>> set frontmost of process devant to true
>>end tell
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