Re: how to tell application using psn
Re: how to tell application using psn
- Subject: Re: how to tell application using psn
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:20:51 -0700
On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
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).
If that's the case, then he really ought to be using the Accessibility
APIs, since that's what System Events is implemented using.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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