Re: Slightly OT: simulating a dock icon click via an AppleEvent (or otherwise)
Re: Slightly OT: simulating a dock icon click via an AppleEvent (or otherwise)
- Subject: Re: Slightly OT: simulating a dock icon click via an AppleEvent (or otherwise)
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:15:18 -0800
- Thread-topic: Slightly OT: simulating a dock icon click via an AppleEvent (or otherwise)
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:54:57 -0800, John Stiles <email@hidden> said:
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A 'rapp' (reopen) AppleEvent does this.
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I don't know how to write it in full-on AppleScript
It's easy. You simply tell the target app to reopen. m.
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Mark Aufflick wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I have a system menu that does things with skype. One of the menu
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> options brings skype to the foreground (using obvious applescript)
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> but what I want it to do is to bring the main skype window to the
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> foreground even if the user has closed it.
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> The skype cocoa api has no method to do that and it's applescript
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> dictionary doesn't offer any hints either.
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> BUT, when you click on the dock icon, skype reacts with exactly the
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> behaviour I want which got me wondering if there is any system
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> standard way to send a "dock icon click" event to an application?
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