Break Active Finder Tab Into New Window with Applescript - applescript

Question

I am trying to write an applescript to break the active Finder tab into a new window. I am able to do this with Chrome using:
on moveActiveTabToNewWindow()
tell application "Google Chrome"
set theURL to URL of active tab of window 1
close active tab of window 1
make new window
set URL of active tab of window 1 to theURL
end tell
end moveActiveTabToNewWindow
However, as far as I can tell Finder tabs are not accessible via Applescript. Is this possible? I'm on OS X Mavericks 10.9.2.

Answer 1

Manipulating tabs is not accessible directly but you could do it manually. In other words we can close that tab and then open a new window and replicate what you saw in that tab, just like you did in your Google Chrome example.
Here's some code. This code is basic. Just like I got the "target" property from the Finder window, you could get other properties too and replicate them in the new window to really do a more complete job of replicating the tab. You'll probably want to duplicate the bounds and view options at least.
Good luck.
-- get the target of the front tab
tell application "Finder"
activate
tell window 1 to set t to target
end tell
-- close that tab
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "w" using command down
end tell
-- make a new window and set its target
tell application "Finder"
set w to make new Finder window at front
tell w to set target to t
end tell