Re: UI referencing a window by number not name
Re: UI referencing a window by number not name
- Subject: Re: UI referencing a window by number not name
- From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:18:58 +1000
Many thanks for your code Carmin. It
helped big-time with the Quark
Print window.
However, regarding FreeHand (the
second part of my original question) , trying to obtain the ID of all FreeHand's
windows fails. I changed it to "name" and that worked fine but
the document window is not seen as the first item. The palettes sitting
above the document are seen as higher than the document. I tried using
"last item" and that worked to locate the name of my document
window until I had 2 or more documents open and the one on top ( the one
I wanted to target) was no longer the last window.
I tried using "document 1"
and that worked until I realised FreeHand assigned documents a number and
that number didn't change when you swapped between documents, so if document
2 was on top the script would still target document 1 under it (Quark doesn't
act that way, whatever doc is on top is doc 1).
I then tried "active document"
but it wouldn't compile and "front document" didn't work... can't
remember the reason now. So with FreeHand I'm kinda stuck being able to
target the front most document's window.
I altered your script to the following:
tell
application "FreeHand MX"
activate
tell
application "System Events"
tell
process "FreeHand MX"
set
zWindows to
windows
set
zId to
properties of
last
item of
zWindows
end
tell
end
tell
end
tell
Which gave this
result in the Event Log:
....snipped
get
properties of
window "Untitled-1" of
application process "FreeHand MX"
{position:{59, 25}, maximum value:missing
value, name:"Untitled-1", size:{1218, 992}, subrole:missing value,
class:window, minimum value:missing value, enabled:missing value, selected:missing
value, role:"AXWindow", help:missing value, title:"Untitled-1",
value:missing value, orientation:missing value, description:"window",
focused:false}
I noticed there's a property of focused:false.
I then tried to write some code that looks for a document whose window
has the property of focused:true but couldn't get the syntax right.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Coj
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somewhere along the line
you had to have been able to reference the window
forget the name, use the window id
tell application
"Script Editor"
set
zWindows
to
windows
set
zId
to
id
of
first
item
of
zWindows
display
dialog zId
end tell
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