Re: Preview.app scriptable
Re: Preview.app scriptable
- Subject: Re: Preview.app scriptable
- From: DeNigris Sean <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:56:35 -0500
> As I reported before, the 'first window' didn't move at all when scripted. By accident then I adressed window 2, and voilà, it did what it should (using 'size' and 'position' as you suggested, 'bounds' are not working).
Sometimes Preview decides to use 1 as the front window, and sometimes it uses 2. You have to do some kind of test to avoid the phantom window when it's present like "find the first window that has a name." I haven't done enough research to know for sure, but it may be related to the type of file that's opened first (seems like jpg=1, pdf=2).
Here's some Ruby code that shows the situation. I hope it helps. You can pretty easily translate it into applescript:
describe "#front_window" do
context "when preview decides 1 is the index of the front window" do
it "should get front window" do
#Open file in app from command line per http://lifehacker.com/302197/useful-command-line-tricks-for-mac-users
`open -a Preview #{jpg_test_file_path}`
wait_for_preview_to_be_ready
preview = Preview.reference
preview.front_window.title.should == File.basename(jpg_test_file_path)
preview.quit
end
end
context "when preview decides 2 is the index of the front window" do
it "should get front window" do
`open -a Preview #{pdf_test_file_path}`
wait_for_preview_to_be_ready
preview = Preview.reference
preview.front_window.title.should match /^#{File.basename(pdf_test_file_path)}/
preview.quit
end
end
end
class Preview
...
def front_window
#ui is a reference to application "System Events" -> process 'Preview'
front_window_index = ui.windows[1].name.get ? 1 : 2
front_window = ui.windows[front_window_index]
ApplicationScripting::Window.new front_window
end
end _______________________________________________
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