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Re: Identifying the frontmost application from a script saved as an application

Subject: Re: Identifying the frontmost application from a script saved as an application
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 12:23:45 -0500

On May 16, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Yvan KOENIG wrote:

The required one is :
tell application "System Events" to set path2frontmostApp to (path to frontmost application)

I've got a problem with that, at least in Snow Leopard. The command ...

path to frontmost application

isn't a System Events command. It belongs to Standard Additions.

You can do this, however ...

tell application "System Events"

set frontAppl to (name of (some process whose frontmost is true)) as text

end tell

path to application frontAppl

'frontmost' is a property in System Events that applies to applications and processes among other things.

But, you have to know the name of the application in order to set/get it's 'frontmost' property.

You can NOT use:

tell application "System Events"

set frontAppl to (name of (some application whose frontmost is true)) as text

end tell

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