When I get the reference to a window using for example:
tell application "Safari"
set theWindow to first window
end tell
log(process(theWindow)) -- # Safari
tell application "Terminal"
set theWindow to first window
end tell
log(process(theWindow)) -- # Terminal
to process(theWindow)
-- How to get app name from "theWindow"
end process
From the variable theWindow, is it possible to extract the app name "Safari"? I need to know this information from a handler because the handler can accept window reference of other application as well.
tell application "Safari"
set theWindow to first window
end tell
log (process(theWindow))
tell application "Terminal"
set theWindow to first window
end tell
log (process(theWindow)) -- # Terminal
to process(theWindow)
try
theWindow as text
on error errorMessage
end try
set ATID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "\""
set appName to text item 2 of errorMessage
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ATID
return appName
end process
Related
I'm trying to retrieve a list of available AirPlay output audio devices, I don't have a preference on which language to use.
Before Ventura I used the following Apple Script:
set devices to {}
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "System Preferences"
repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
end repeat
tell tab group 1 of window "Sound"
click radio button "Output"
tell table 1 of scroll area 1
set selected_row to (first UI element whose selected is true)
set currentOutput to value of text field 1 of selected_row as text
repeat with r in rows
try
set deviceName to value of text field 1 of r as text
set deviceType to value of text field 2 of r as text
set end of devices to { deviceName, deviceType }
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
if application "System Preferences" is running then
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
end if
return [ devices, "currentOutput", currentOutput ]
But since the Ventura update this broken and it seems like there's no way to adapt it to work with Apple Script anymore.
Does anyone know how to update it to work with Ventura or could point me to the documentation of either Swift or ObjC to retrieve this list?
You can get system information for audio devices in the XML form, then parse it someway for audio devices names. I don't think following parsing is very good, but it works for me at least:
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
set theXML to do shell script "system_profiler SPAudioDataType -xml"
set {theXMLDoc, theError} to current application's NSXMLDocument's alloc()'s initWithXMLString:theXML options:(current application's NSXMLDocumentTidyHTML) |error|:(reference)
set {theMatches, theError} to (theXMLDoc's nodesForXPath:("//array") |error|:(reference))
if theMatches = missing value then error (theError's localizedDescription() as text)
set temp to (theMatches's firstObject()'s valueForKey:"stringValue") as text
set ATID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"_name", "coreaudio", "_properties"}
set tempItems to text items of temp
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ATID
set audioDevicesNames to {}
repeat with anItem in tempItems
set anItem to contents of anItem
if anItem is "" or anItem begins with "_" then
-- do nothing
else
set end of audioDevicesNames to anItem
end if
end repeat
audioDevicesNames
I am writing a script to go to the NYT website on Corona, get the US data, extract numbers (total, death), and to send me a notification. I am close, but when I extract numbers and display them, they are put together (ie 700021 instead of 7000,21). My question is:
How do I extract the numbers so that they are delineated?
Here is the code:
set theURL to "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storyline_menu"
tell application "Safari" to make new document with properties {URL:theURL}
tell application "System Events"
repeat until exists (UI elements of groups of toolbar 1 of window 1 of application process "Safari" whose name = "Reload this page")
delay 0.5
end repeat
end tell
to getInputByClass(theClass, num)
tell application "Safari"
set input to do JavaScript "
document.getElementsByClassName('" & theClass & "')[" & num & "].innerText;" in document 1
end tell
return input
end getInputByClass
set myVar to getInputByClass("g-body ", 5)
on returnNumbersInString(inputString)
set s to quoted form of inputString
do shell script "sed s/[a-zA-Z\\']//g <<< " & s
set dx to the result
set numlist to {}
repeat with i from 1 to count of words in dx
set this_item to word i of dx
try
set this_item to this_item as number
set the end of numlist to this_item
end try
end repeat
return numlist
end returnNumbersInString
set theNums to returnNumbersInString(myVar) as text
display notification "COVID-19 UPDATE" subtitle theNums sound name "glass"
tell application "Safari"
close its front window
end tell
You are getting a list of numbers from the returnNumbersInString handler, but just coercing the list to text doesn't normally provide any kind of formatting. One solution would be to use text item delimiters to specify the text to use when joining the list items. For example, when converting to text for the notification you could do something like:
set tempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "
set theNums to returnNumbersInString(myVar) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tempTID
Similar to your other question I helped you with, the target data is already in a table and as such I'd use the table data to get the information as its structure layout is not likely to change where target 'g-body ' of 5 may not always be the United States.
I get my data a little different way:
set theURL to "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storyline_menu"
tell application "Safari" to make new document with properties {URL:theURL}
tell application "System Events"
repeat until exists ¬
(UI elements of groups of toolbar 1 of window 1 of ¬
application process "Safari" whose name = "Reload this page")
delay 0.5
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Safari" to tell document 1 to set CountriesTable to ¬
do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('svelte-f9sygj')[0].innerText;"
tell application "Safari" to close its front window
set awkCommand to ¬
"awk '/United States/{print $3,\"Cases &\",$4,\"Deaths\"}'"
set notificationMessage to ¬
do shell script awkCommand & "<<<" & CountriesTable's quoted form
display notification notificationMessage subtitle "US COVID-19 UPDATE" sound name "glass"
NOTE: The code used to determine when the page in Safari has finished loading works in macOS Mojave and later, however, for macOS High Sierra and some earlier versions, add the words buttons of in front of UI elements ... in the repeat until exists ¬ ... code.
Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not contain any error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. See also, Working with Errors. Additionally, the use of the delay command may be necessary between events where appropriate, e.g. delay 0.5, with the value of the delay set appropriately.
Applescript newbie question again :) I am trying to create a small applescript that will allow me to select multiple items from a list of currently running applications and then quit those selected apps. Something like this works but rather than having to click on each dialog it would be much easier to chose from a list.
tell application "System Events"
repeat with p in every process
if background only of p is false then
display dialog "Would you like to quit " & name of p & "?" as string
end if
end repeat
end tell
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Try this:
tell application "System Events"
set listOfProcesses to (name of every process where background only is false)
tell me to set selectedProcesses to choose from list listOfProcesses with multiple selections allowed
end tell
--The variable `selectedProcesses` will contain the list of selected items.
repeat with processName in selectedProcesses
do shell script "Killall " & quoted form of processName
end repeat
tell application "System Events"
set processList to get the name of every process whose background only is false
set processNameList to choose from list processList with prompt "Select process to quit" with multiple selections allowed
if the result is not false then
repeat with processName in processNameList
do shell script "Killall " & quoted form of processName
end repeat
end if
end tell
you can use this script which is much simpler
tell application "Finder"
get the name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
You can try this
tell application "System Events"
set AppName to name of every process whose background only is false
choose from list AppName OK button name "Ok" cancel button name "Cancel"
end
& (name of every process whose (name is "AppName") can be added to Michele Percich's and Parag Bafna's solutions to include specific menu bar applications by name.
tell application processName to quit can be used instead of do shell script "Killall " & quoted form of processName.
tell application "System Events"
set processList to ¬
(name of every process where background only is false) & ¬
(name of every process whose ¬
(name is "AppName") or ¬
(name is "AnotherAppName"))
tell me to set selectedProcesses to choose from list processList with prompt "Select process(es) to quit:" with multiple selections allowed
end tell
if the result is not false then
repeat with processName in selectedProcesses
tell application processName to quit
end repeat
end if
I wrote this following AppleScript code a few years back. I consider it to be a “Must Have” because I use it almost every single day.
This code will generate a list of Visible and Hidden application processes, allowing multiple items to be selected to kill their processes. The first items in the list will be visible application processes (not sorted alphabetically), then an empty list item (used to separate the visible from the hidden processes), and the remaining list items will be the hidden application processes (sorted alphabetically)
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
property appsToKill : missing value
property NSArray : a reference to current application's NSArray
listAllAppProcesses()
activate
set killApp to (choose from list ¬
appsToKill with title "Choose The App To Kill" with prompt ¬
"Choose The App/Apps To Kill" & linefeed & linefeed ¬
& "The Empty List Item Separates The Visible From The Hidden Applications" OK button name ¬
"OK" cancel button name "CANCEL" with multiple selections allowed)
set pidList to {}
if killApp is not false then
tell application "System Events"
repeat with i from 1 to count of killApp
set thisItem to item i of killApp
tell application process thisItem
set thePID to unix id
set end of pidList to thePID
end tell
end repeat
end tell
else
return
end if
set text item delimiters to space
do shell script ({"kill -9", pidList} as text)
on listAllAppProcesses()
tell application "System Events"
set visibleAppsToKill to name of every application process ¬
where visible is true
set invisibleAppsToKill to name of every application process ¬
where visible is false
set aList to ((NSArray's arrayWithArray:invisibleAppsToKill)'s ¬
sortedArrayUsingSelector:"caseInsensitiveCompare:") as list
set appsToKill to visibleAppsToKill & "" & aList
end tell
end listAllAppProcesses
If you want it from Terminal, you can use a simple script like this quit.rb
The following example AppleScript code is pretty straight forward and will gracefully quit the selected application(s), providing the selected application(s) is (are) in a stable state:
tell application "System Events" to ¬
set appList to the name of ¬
every process whose visible is true
set quitAppList to ¬
choose from list appList ¬
with multiple selections allowed
repeat with thisApp in quitAppList
quit application thisApp
end repeat
When I present a list to choose from, I prefer to have it in alphabetical order and to that end I use a handler to first sort the list before presenting it:
on SortList(thisList)
set indexList to {}
set sortedList to {}
set theCount to (count thisList)
repeat theCount times
set lowItem to ""
repeat with i from 1 to theCount
if i is not in the indexList then
set thisItem to item i of thisList as text
if lowItem is "" then
set lowItem to thisItem
set lowItemIndex to i
else if thisItem comes before lowItem then
set lowItem to thisItem
set lowItemIndex to i
end if
end if
end repeat
set end of sortedList to lowItem
set end of indexList to lowItemIndex
end repeat
return the sortedList
end SortList
To use this with the first block of code presented I typically add handlers at the bottom of my code and then to use it, add the following example AppleScript code between the tell application "Finder" to ¬ and set quitAppList to ¬ statements:
set appList to SortList(appList)
Note: I acquired this particular handler somewhere on the Internet too many years ago to remember and unfortunately lost who to credit it to. My apologies to whomever you are.
I'm trying to write a script that logs the current app, switches to another app, does some task, and comes back to the original app. This is what I have
set currentApp to my getCurrentApp()
activate application "Safari"
# Some task
activate application currentApp
to getCurrentApp()
set front_app to (path to frontmost application as Unicode text)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set front_app to front_app's text items
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""} --> restore delimiters to default value
set item_num to (count of front_app) - 1
set app_name to item item_num of front_app
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set app_name to app_name's text items
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""} --> restore delimiters to default value
set MyApp to item 1 of app_name
return MyApp
end getCurrentApp
The weird thing is that the activate application command works if you type in a string literal, but if you pass it a string variable, it will not activate the application. Any ideas why?
Your script works for me. Activating an application with a string variable has always worked in any version of OSX... so you have some different problem happening. The problem is not in the code you are showing.
Although your code works, you can shorten your getCurrentApp() subroutine like this...
set currentApp to my getCurrentApp()
activate application "Safari"
delay 1
activate application currentApp
to getCurrentApp()
return (path to frontmost application as text)
end getCurrentApp
You really don't even need "as text" in the subroutine if you also remove "application" from the activate line...
set currentApp to my getCurrentApp()
activate application "Safari"
delay 1
activate currentApp
to getCurrentApp()
return (path to frontmost application)
end getCurrentApp
So after all is said and done, your code could look like this...
set currentApp to path to frontmost application
activate application "Safari"
delay 1
activate currentApp
EDIT: Sometimes when you try to get the frontmost application, the applescript that you are running is the frontmost application instead of the app you think is frontmost. It's very hard to detect when this happens but I suspect this may be happening to you. So here's a subroutine that I use the get the frontmost app. This ensures that the applescript is not returned as the frontmost app. Give it a try and see if it helps...
on getFrontAppPath()
set frontAppPath to (path to frontmost application) as text
set myPath to (path to me) as text
if frontAppPath is myPath then
try
tell application "Finder" to set bundleID to id of file myPath
tell application "System Events" to set visible of (first process whose bundle identifier is bundleID) to false
-- we need to delay because it takes time for the process to hide
-- I noticed this when running the code as an application from the applescript menu bar item
set inTime to current date
repeat
set frontAppPath to (path to frontmost application) as text
if frontAppPath is not myPath then exit repeat
if (current date) - inTime is greater than 2 then exit repeat
end repeat
end try
end if
return frontAppPath
end getFrontAppPath
How would I quit all running user applications using Applescript?
It's okay... I think I found my answer:
tell application "System Events" to set the visible of every process to true
set white_list to {"Finder"}
try
tell application "Finder"
set process_list to the name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to (number of items in process_list)
set this_process to item i of the process_list
if this_process is not in white_list then
tell application this_process
quit
end tell
end if
end repeat
on error
tell the current application to display dialog "An error has occurred!" & return & "This script will now quit" buttons {"Quit"} default button 1 with icon 0
end try
After some googling, I found a better approach:
It uses background only to build the initial app list, rather than
visible is true. The difference is that the other scripts will fail
to quit an app that's been hidden with ⌘H.
It provides an exclusions
list so that, for example, you can prevent your script editor from
quitting each time you test the script.
Adapted from a thread on MacScripter.
-- get list of open apps
tell application "System Events"
set allApps to displayed name of (every process whose background only is false) as list
end tell
-- leave some apps open
set exclusions to {"AppleScript Editor", "Automator", "Finder", "LaunchBar"}
-- quit each app
repeat with thisApp in allApps
set thisApp to thisApp as text
if thisApp is not in exclusions then
tell application thisApp to quit
end if
end repeat
tell application "System Events" to set the visible of every process to true
set white_list to {"Finder"}
try
tell application "Finder"
set process_list to the name of every process whose visible is true
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to (number of items in process_list)
set this_process to item i of the process_list
if this_process is not in white_list then
tell application this_process
quit
end tell
end if
end repeat
on error
tell the current application to display dialog "An error has occurred!" & return & "This script will now quit" buttons {"Quit"} default button 1 with icon 0
end try
tell application "System Events" to set quitapps to name of every application process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder"
repeat with closeall in quitapps
quit application closeall
end repeat