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: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:21:37 +0200
Deivey
>>> 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.
Basically I agree, but checking I came about a puzzling effect:
set appName to "AppleScript Editor"
tell application "System Events" to tell application appName to get id of window 2
doesn't work, although
set appName to "AppleScript Editor"
tell application appName to get id of window 2
and
tell application "System Events" to tell application "AppleScript Editor" to get id of window 2
do.
So there is some difference in the evaluation of variables. Any idea?
Thomas
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