Re: System Events: window id's instead of window names?
Re: System Events: window id's instead of window names?
- Subject: Re: System Events: window id's instead of window names?
- From: Deivy Marck Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:44:04 -0400
On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> Am 22.06.2010 um 16:11 schrieb Deivy Marck Petrescu:
>
>>> I'm not quite clear what you are trying to achieve.
>>> But from short testing, my impression is that "process" windows don't have ids, while application windows do.
>>> So for example
>>>
>>> tell application "System Events"
>>> get id of window 2 of application "TextEdit"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> works for me (10.6.4), while
>>>
>>> tell application "System Events"
>>> get id of window 2 of process "TextEdit"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> yields an error.
>>> Does this help in any way?
>
>> Thomas,
>> You got the id of the window because TextEdit is scriptable and might (it does in this case) have "id" as its window's property.
>> If you try your script with a non-scriptable app, you will get an error.
>
> I agree, but my point was that even if the application is scriptable, there is no
> id of window 2 of process "TextEdit"
> while there is one for
> window 2 of application "TextEdit".
This is so, because in SL you do not need to "tell" an app.
You can run the script:
get id of window 2 of application "TextEdit"
And it will work.
So in effect your script above is like:
Tell app "System Events" to tell app "TextEdit" to get id of window 2
And you can see that the first tell does absolutely nothing.
So, your suggestion of app will only work with an app that is scriptable.
Otherwise is not useful.
>
> I'm wondering if something like
>
> tell application "System Events"
> set myProcess to (name of first process whose frontmost = true and visible = true)
> set ws to windows of process myProcess
> set {width, height} to {screenWidth / (count ws), screenHeight}
> repeat with i from 1 to count ws
> set {position of window i of myProcess, size of window i of myProcess} to {{(i - 1) * width, 0}, {width, height}}
> end repeat
> end tell
>
> would do the job.
> And here I have the problem how I can test a script that refers to the font window: when I'm scripting, this is alway Script Editor...
>
This is what Axel suggested.
> Best
> Thomas _______________________________________________
Deivy Petrescu
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