Re: Listing Applications by Index Order - was Frontmost Application...
Re: Listing Applications by Index Order - was Frontmost Application...
- Subject: Re: Listing Applications by Index Order - was Frontmost Application...
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:18:45 +0900
Beautiful :)
JC
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 10:53, Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> Hey Jean-Christophe,
>
> Yvan has given you a working solution for this, but there is a way to list
> apps by index order.
>
> The caveat is that they MUST be visible – hence the System Events code.
>
> I've massaged the output of `lsappinfo` a trifle, but I've left in the serial
> number – so you can see what they look like.
>
>
> --
> Take Care,
> Chris
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> # Auth: Christopher Stone
> # dCre: 2019/04/24 20:29
> # dMod: 2019/04/24 20:29
> # Appl: Miscellaneous, System Events, Shell
> # Task: List Applications by Index order (front-to-back).
> # Libs: None
> # Osax: None
> # Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @System_Events, @List, @Applications, @Index,
> @Order, @Front_to_Back
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> tell application "System Events"
> set invisibleProcesses to processes whose background only is false and
> visible is false
>
> # Apps MUST be VISIBLE to be seen by `lsappinfo`.
> repeat with i in invisibleProcesses
> set visible of i to true
> end repeat
>
> end tell
>
> set shCMD to "
> lsappinfo visibleProcessList \\
> | awk -v OFS=\"\\n\" '{$1=$1}1'"
> do shell script shCMD
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> To ditch the serial numbers and underscores change the shell command to:
>
> set shCMD to "
> lsappinfo visibleProcessList \\
> | awk -v OFS=\"\\n\" '{$1=$1}1' \\
> | sed -E '-e s!^.*\"([^\"]+)\".*$!\\1!' -e 's!_! !'
> "
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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