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macOS Scripting question

Macman1993

Macman1993

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Original poster
Nov 23, 2007
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I've set hotkeys to execute scripts and they work but they only open the application but the application is hidden and to see it I have to click its icon in the dock which completely defeats the hotkeys purpose. Heres one of the scripts I have can someone tell me what I have to add into it so that the application opens and comes to the front of my screen when I hit the hotkey

tell application "safari"
open (yes I know a tab goes before "open" but this site wouldnt let me type it)
end tell
 
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toddburch

macrumors 6502a
Dec 4, 2006
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Katy, Texas
This seemed to work for me:

Code: 
tell application "Safari"
	activate
end tell

Todd

(P.S. Use [code] and [/code] tags to wrap your code and preserve tabs)
 
Macman1993

Macman1993

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Nov 23, 2007
337
16
Thanks that worked and I have one more question what is the script to move an already open application to the front of my screen?
 
Sayer

Sayer

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Jan 4, 2002
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Austin, TX
Macman1993 said:
Thanks that worked and I have one more question what is the script to move an already open application to the front of my screen?
Click to expand...

You mean bring all the windows forward? I guess you could use:

Code: 
tell application "Safari"
    tell window 1 to activate
end tell
 
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