In article <4b6c8e7b.8000...@gmail.com>,
Todd <t.greenwoodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
You need to get a windows reference from each application's object, not
from a System Events app object:
>>> bounds_tuple = app('Terminal').windows.first.bounds()
>>> print bounds_tuple
(675, 310, 1330, 820)
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Ned Deily,
n...@acm.org
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