selection of finder list view
selection of finder list view
- Subject: selection of finder list view
- From: Alex da Franca <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:20:36 +0100
Hi list,
I am pretty new to applescript and I am having a hard time to figure
out how to get the selected line(s) of a finder window in list view.
what I have so far is:
activate application "Finder"
tell application "System Events"
if UI elements enabled then
tell application process "Finder"
return value of attribute "AXSelectedRows" of outline 1 of scroll
area 2 of splitter group 1 of window 1
end tell
end if
end tell
I have that line from prefab.
it is supposed to be an array, but somehow all I get is:
{application "System Events"}
I also tried:
the selected rows of outline1
but depite the fact, that
the rows of outline 1
work, the selected rows don't seem to work.
prefab however is able to determine the selected rows.
I am only able to tell which rows are selected by repeating through
"rows" and check which one has its "selected" property set to true.
repeat with i from 1 to the number of rows
tell row i
if selected then
....
end if
end tell
end repeat
this is slow, if I have a finder window with many items and the
selected file is at the botton.
somehow there must be a better way, as the information seems to be
there in "AXSelectedRows", but I didn't find anything helpful about
AXSelectedRows via google.
please help.
Best regards
------------------- Alexander da Franca ----------------
Multimedia Developer |_________________________| Lingo Programmer
------------------- <http://www.farbflash.de> ----------------
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