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Re: How to position windows in iBooks


  • Subject: Re: How to position windows in iBooks
  • From: rpoland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 11:51:42 -0600
  • Z-usanet-msgid: XID495uDdRzQ7520X32

Thanks Gregg,

Did you try either of these?  I can't get either one to compile.

> On Apr 30, 2016, at 11:42:AM, David Gregg <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 30, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Since Apple has chosen to not support Applescript in iBooks is there any way to set the position of the main window of iBooks?
>
> Using System Events to set the left top position of the window to 100, 100
>
> set newTopLeftPosition to {100, 100}
>
> tell application "System Events"
> 	tell process "iBooks"
> 		set position of window 1 to newTopLeftPosition
> 	end tell
> end tell
>
> You can also set it up to be centred on the screen, if you like, by using:
>
> tell application "Finder" to set {screenLeft, screenTop, screenWidth, ScreenHeight} to bounds of window of desktop
> tell application "System Events"
> 	tell process "iBooks"
> 		set {windowWidth, windowHeight} to size of window 1
> 		set position of window 1 to {(screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2 as integer, (ScreenHeight - windowHeight) / 2 as integer}
> 	end tell
> end tell
>
>
>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Robert Poland
>> iMac, Late 2013, 14,2
>> 3.2 GHz Intel Core I5, 27”
>> 16 GB Ram, 1TB Fusion HD
>> OS X 10.11.4

Robert Poland
Fort Collins, CO


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