Re: Calling methods on other applications?

FROM : Ondra Cada
DATE : Sun Apr 03 11:54:27 2005

Mike,

On 3.4.2005, at 11:27, Mike Hall wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Ken Tozier
> To: Cocoa Dev Dev
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Calling methods on other applications?
>
> You might be able to do this with an AppleScript
>  
> As I remember you definitely can do this with AppleScript


Can you? I fear not.

Lately, I needed just to get the current document name (or current
window title, if there's no document) of the current application. I've
played with AppleScript long enough; far as I can say, with a number of
apps these things work excellent, with other ones they do not work at
all.

If you need to control a concrete application, AppleScript is an
excellent tool, presumed you've got lucky and the particular app is
AppleScriptable. To controll all (or vast majority) of apps though
cannot be done this way, since, well, a number of them are *not*
AppleScriptable.
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