Hi,
I'm not trying to manipulate anything in the protected memory space. All I want
to do is determine the name of the application / process from the window, and
then bring it to the front-most index.
UI scripting is exactly what I've tried to do and failed. For example, you'd
expect the following script to work, but not all application supports the
functions I used here and it will fail on some application (including the ones
that I need to support):
-- the window title we're looking for
set winName to "someWinTitle"
tell application "System Events"
set procs to processes whose visible is true
end tell
-- go through all visible processes
repeat with i from 1 to (count of procs)
set appName to name of item i of procs
tell application appName
set winCount to count of windows
-- go through all the app's windows
repeat with x from 1 to winCount
-- match the window's title
if ((name of (item x of windows)) as string) is winName then
set index of item x of windows to 1
display dialog "success!! " & winName & " is a " & appName & "
window"
return
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
display dialog "window " & winName & " not found"
It seems to me that Applescript provides a very limited solution for my
problem, which is why I started looking into Accessibility API (and still got
stuck).
Aldo
Jens Alfke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3 Mar '08, at 1:10 PM, aldo kurnia wrote:
> Given a window's TITLE, how do you create a reference to it,
> determine what kind of application the window is (the name of the
> application/executable)? and how do you move that window to the front?
Applications run in protected memory spaces. There's no way to get
direct access to windows of other processes. (This is a Good Thing for
system security.)
> Applescript is also not very useful since the application I'm trying
> to support doesn't support some of the basic window scripts.
The UI scripting support might help; its AppleScript commands end up
generating fake UI events in the target app, so you can manipulate
even apps that aren't scriptable. I don't know how to use that stuff,
though. Check the docs.
Jens
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