I'd like to perform some window management via appscript on Mac OSX
(10.6.2).
This is pretty straightforward using AppleScript (see code#1 below).
However, my attempts to perform the same tasks in python appscript have
failed:
1. get bounds of display
2. get bounds of foreground process
I can query the 'System Events' for the process list, and get the
foremost process...however, I cannot get the bounds from the windows.
(see code#2 below).
The appscript error is:
------------------------------------------------
CommandError: Command failed:
OSERROR: -1728
MESSAGE: Can't get reference.
OFFENDING OBJECT:
app(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/System
Events.app').application_processes[u'iTerm'].windows[u't...@greenmachine: ~/Documents/projects/python/windowmanager'].bounds
COMMAND: app(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/System
Events.app').application_processes[u'iTerm'].windows[u't...@greenmachine: ~/Documents/projects/python/windowmanager'].bounds.get()
------------------------------------------------
Any advice out there?
-Todd
CODE#1 (AppleScript)
--------------------
"""
# no idea how to do this in appscript
tell application "Finder"
set _b to bounds of window of desktop
set display_x_size to item 3 of _b
set display_y_size to item 4 of _b
end tell
# should be able to do this in appscript, but doesn't work
tell application cur_app
tell front window
set {x1, y1, x2, y2} to (get bounds)
end tell
end tell
"""
CODE#2 (python appscript)
--------------------
"""
#! /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python
# get the appscript bridge
from appscript import *
# define the service event
se = app(u'System Events')
import pdb
class WindowManager:
def dumpWindowBounds(self):
for app in se.processes.get():
for win in app.windows.get():
print win, win.bounds.get()
if __name__ == "__main__":
wm = WindowManager()
wm.dumpWindowBounds()
"""
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