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Re: Telling the Finder to only bring one window to the foreground
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Re: Telling the Finder to only bring one window to the foreground


  • Subject: Re: Telling the Finder to only bring one window to the foreground
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:39:35 +0200

Title: Re: Telling the Finder to only bring one window to the for
At 1:55 PM -0400 9/18/07, Deivy Marck Petrescu wrote:
On Sep 18, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Chilton Webb wrote:

Hi,

How do I tell the Finder to only bring a specific window to the foreground in front of my app?

I can make it...
Open a window (open)
Select a window (select)
Bring all windows to the foreground (activate)

... but I have been unable to make it open just one window without bringing the others to the foreground, too.

Thank you,
-Chilton Webb
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As you pointed out...

tell application "Finder" to select window 2

I think the OP wants the Finder's window *above* the current app, not only above the other windows in Finder. Like clicking a Finder's window while Smile is the front app.

The only route I could think of, but I didn't quite finalize the idea, would be to minimize the new Finder's window into the Dock, then switch to the other app, then un-minimize the window in the Dock: when you do so using the UI you get the Finder's window in front of the app, and the other Finder's windows behind. I don't know how to script that.

Emmanuel
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