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Re: how to tell application using psn
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Re: how to tell application using psn


  • Subject: Re: how to tell application using psn
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:14:35 -0700

On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:37 PM, email@hidden wrote:

At 8:54 PM +0100 9/9/08, has wrote:
I've read that this is doable, but I can't find a single example. Can
someone show me how? I just want to execute a simple script like


tell application N
  name of windows
end tell

where N is the psn of the app.

PSNs not so much. You can target apps by PIDs in AS, but that involves messing about with eppc URLs and Remote Apple Events which introduces authentication/security issues.

I must confess that I don't remember the exact formula (I published it once on this list, though), but it's as Has has said. It's something like tell app "SomeApp" of machine "eppc://someURL? pid=SomePSN" but if I remember correctly it won't work with 127.0.0.1 or localhost. eppc doesn't connect to self.


Otherwise (that is, between different machines), it works flawlessly, except that (I think) you cannot use Keychain because it's confused, it thinks "eppc" is really "cppe", and that hangs the caller app.

Hey guys, I believe the OP is trying to do this:

tell application "System Events" to get title of every window of every application process

in AppleEvents (due to a fuller explanation of his purpose on another list).


Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@

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