Re: so what's going on here?
Re: so what's going on here?
- Subject: Re: so what's going on here?
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:33:45 -0600
On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Bill Briggs wrote:
I use the script below
...
But when I run it from the Mac's native scripts menu it doesn't work.
I encountered something like this with the Script Menu, but its been
some time ago and I've forgotten the details. So I did a quick
experiment ...
I wrote this script document, named "Frontmost_test source"
activate me
short name of (info for (path to frontmost application))
tell me to display dialog the result
which I saved as a "faceless background application" named
"Frontmost_test".
I put both into the User's Scripts folder. Both returned the correct
frontmost application. My earlier experience with script documents in
the Script Menu, if I remember correctly, was something like yours.
And another quick experiment, "Frontmost_test source" is this ...
tell application "System Events"
set fMostList to the name of every application process whose
frontmost is true
end tell
activate me
tell me to display dialog (item 1 of fMostList) as text
which I saved as a "faceless background application" named
"Frontmost_test".
The script "Frontmost_test source" incorrectly returns "System Events"
while the application "Frontmost_test" correctly returns the real
frontmost application.
You need to save your script as a "faceless background application"; or
Avoid using 'tell application "System Events" ... '.
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