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Re: frontmost application

  • Subject: Re: frontmost application
  • From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:07:17 -0500
Hi Luther.  This is a side-effect of the fact that Apple's Script Menu asks System Events to handle script execution, and it always (I think!) becomes frontmost to execute the script.

I'm not sure if there is a scripting way of getting the name of the "app that possesses the menu bar," but you might consider trying FastScripts (my $15 Script Menu/Keyboard Shortcuts utility), which is much more conservative about when it chooses to "switch out the front process." This has a number of benefits, including the elimination of the annoying "visual blip" as the active becomes deactivated and then activated again whenever you run a script.

http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/

Daniel

On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

  tell application "Finder" to name of some process whose frontmost is true

  tell me to display dialog the result as text


If I run it from Smile, it correctly tells me that Smile is the frontmost application.

If I run it from the script menu, it ALWAYS tells me that System Events is frontmost.

I'm running OS 10.4.3. Is this true of earlier versions of the OS?


What I want, of course, is the application name that appears in the menu bar.

A direct approach to getting this ought to be as easy as something like ...

    name of menu item 2 of menu bar

Does anyone know of any documents that explain how to do this?


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