Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Safari 3 beta, tab object and AppleScript
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:14:02 -0300
At 4:55 PM -0400 6/12/07, Jim DeVona wrote:
>On 6/12/07, Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>Well, I see that they added tabs to the object model for Safari, but so far I can't seem to get any syntax to work to make a new tab in an existing window. Anyone else try this yet?
>
>I had noticed that there appeared to be improved scripting support for
>tabs in the Safari 3 beta, but I hadn't tried to create a new tab
>until I read your message. I find I am unable to do so as well. Here
>is a simple test case, to be run when a browser window with a single
>tab is already open:
>
>tell application "Safari"
>tell window 1
> make new tab
>end tell
>end tell
>
>The "make new tab" line generates the following error message: "Safari
>got an error: NSInternalScriptError"
>
>Is this a usage error on my behalf, or is this indeed a bug?
I got the same thing. Tried all manner of variations on the syntax (make new tab at end of tabs; make new tab at beginning of tabs; etc.). Looks like a bug to me.
And this is interesting, with a normal window (no visible tabs), one gets
tell application "Safari"
tell window 1
set et0 to (exists tab 0)
set et1 to (exists tab 1)
set et2 to (exists tab 2)
end tell
end tell
{et0, et1, et2}
--> {true, true, false}
But if I get the properties of window 1 there are two interesting items in the returned record:
current tab:tab 2 of window id 17411 of application "Safari", index:1
So according to the script there is no tab 2 in existence, but the properties record indicates that the current tab is 2, but yet it's index is 1. I don't have an issue with the fact that there may be a hidden 0th tab in the window object, but I can't make the numbers work in any way that rationalize the above results.
Maybe someone with a bigger brain can clear it up. Or maybe it's a bug. I thought last evenings gin and tonic had worn off by now, but this just isn't making any sense to me.
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