Databases
StackOverflow2013
Postsdbo
POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
 

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals
  1. POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
    primarykey
    data
    text
    <p>Refering to a previously asked <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/373020/finding-the-current-active-window-in-mac-os-x-using-python" title="question">question</a>, I would like to know how to get the title of the current active document.</p> <p>I tried the script mention in the answers to the question above. This works, but only gives me the name of the application. For example, I am writing this question: When I fire up the script it gives me the name of the application, i.e. "Firefox". This is pretty neat, but does not really help. I would rather like to capture the title of my current active document. See the image. </p> <p><a href="http://img.skitch.com/20090126-nq2egknhjr928d1s74i9xixckf.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Firefox title http://img.skitch.com/20090126-nq2egknhjr928d1s74i9xixckf.jpg</a></p> <p>I am using Leopard, so no backward compatibility needed. Also I am using Python's Appkit to gain access to the NSWorkspace class, but if you tell me the Objective-C code, I could figure out the translation to Python. <hr> Ok, I've got a solution which is not very satisfing, thats why I don't mark Koen Bok's answer. At least not yet.</p> <pre><code>tell application "System Events" set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true end tell tell application frontApp if the (count of windows) is not 0 then set window_name to name of front window end if end tell </code></pre> <p>Save as script and invoke it with osascript from the shell.</p>
    singulars
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PTQuestion
    1. USCommunity
    1. USsebastiangeiger
    plurals
    1. PL
      singulars
      1. LTLinked
    1. PL
      singulars
      1. LTLinked
    2. PL
      singulars
      1. LTLinked
    3. PL
      singulars
      1. LTLinked
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. VO
      singulars
      1. POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
      1. This table or related slice is empty.
      1. VTUpMod
    2. VO
      singulars
      1. POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
      1. This table or related slice is empty.
      1. VTUpMod
    3. VO
      singulars
      1. POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
      1. This table or related slice is empty.
      1. VTUpMod
    1. COThank you for the applescript solution. Did you ever find a way to do it via python?
      singulars
      1. POGet the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X
      1. USAmjith
 

Querying!

 
Guidance
A row detail

Detail views are divided into sections. All the information in the data section comes from columns in the selected row. The other sections display data from other, related rows.

Related data can be related in a to-one or a to-many fashion. Captions of data related in a to-many fashion link to a list view showing a filtered view of the table.

Try moving around until you find a non-empty to-many entry and click on the label to get to one. You can move back to the root by clicking on the database name in the header.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload