On 2 Feb 2012, at 00:51, Leo wrote:
> What happens if you send
>
> set frontmost of process yourApp to false
>
> then, using the name of your app? Will it reveal the previous app by a chance?
It seems that "process" has to be followed by a number.
I tried this in AppleScript Editor:
tell application "System Events"
set proCount to count of processes
repeat with x from (1) to (proCount)
set appName to name of process x
if appName = "AppleScript Editor" then
set frontmost of process x to false
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
and it had no effect and no error messages. Tried it inside my app - again, no
effect.
> If not, then is there any way to capture the name of the app you need to
> activate at an earlier stage, so you can send it "set frontmost to true"
> later?
I am getting the previous app by watching for the relevant Carbon events. But
then there is no need to use Apple Script to activate it - activateWithOptions:
is probably more efficient.
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
>
>
> On 2/1/12 1:44:49 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
>> On 1 Feb 2012, at 11:33, Leo wrote:
>>
>>> If I understand your goals correctly, you can send the following
>>> AppleScript script:
>>>
>>> tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process yourApp to true
>> I tried the following in AppleScript Editor:
>>
>> set appList to "processes"
>> tell application "System Events"
>> set proCount to count of processes
>> set appList to appList& "("& proCount& "):"
>> repeat with x from (1) to (proCount)
>> set appName to name of process x
>> set appList to appList& appName& ","
>> end repeat
>> end tell
>> log appList
>>
>>
>> But the resulting list of apps has only a very rough resemblance to the list
>> displayed by Command-Tab.
>>
>> So the following:
>> NSString *source = @"tell application \"System Events\" to set frontmost of
>> process 2 to true";
>> NSAppleScript *appleScript = [ [ NSAppleScript alloc ] initWithSource:
>> source ];
>> NSDictionary *errorInfo;
>> NSAppleEventDescriptor *aed = [ appleScript executeAndReturnError:&errorInfo
>> ];
>> [ appleScript release ];
>>
>> does work in that is activates some app, but process 2 is NOT the previous
>> active app.
>>
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