macOS Applescript, dual monitors, and full screen Chrome

set baseURL1 to "https://www.apple.com/itunes"
set baseURL2 to "https://www.apple.com"

tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    repeat while window 1 exists
        close window 1
    end repeat
    set aWin1 to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{-1000, 0, -500, 500}}
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
    set URL of active tab of aWin1 to baseURL1
end tell

delay 1

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set aWin2 to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{0, 0, 500, 500}}
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
    set URL of active tab of aWin2 to baseURL2
end tell

jiminaus said:

Okay. I don't know AppleScript, but I got the following to work.

Code:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    set aWin1 to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{-1000, 0, -500, 500}}
    tell aWin1
        set URL of first tab to "http://apple.com"
        set tab2 to make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:"http://trailers.apple.com"}
    end tell
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}

delay 1

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set aWin2 to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{0, 0, 500, 500}}
    tell aWin2
        set URL of first tab to "http://me.com"
    end tell
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}

Thanks for your help, wanted to contribute.

Cheers,


There's many more edits to your code then were necessary, I took the opportunity to learn some AppleScript.

The idea is to setup one window, make it fullscreen, and then go into setting up the second window and making it fullscreen.

The delay is critical. If I tried to make the second window fullscreen while the first window is still in the process of animating into fullscreen, it would abort the fullscreen mode of the first window.

Also I needed to setup the window on secondary screen before setting up the window on the primary screen. If I did the other way around, the menu bar and dock showed.

(BTW I had to muck around with your windows' bounds because my monitors are in a different configuration to yours).


EDIT: This is also works if you need the pages to be loaded before Chrome is activated. But it will break if the titles of the individual windows is not unique.

Code:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set windowOnSecondaryScreen to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{-1000, 0, -500, 500}}
    tell windowOnSecondaryScreen
        set tab1 to first tab
        set tab1's URL to "http://apple.com"
        set tab2 to make new tab at end of tabs with properties {URL:"http://www.google.com"}
    end tell
   
    set windowOnPrimaryScreen to make new window with properties {mode:"normal", bounds:{0, 0, 500, 500}}
    tell windowOnPrimaryScreen
        set tab3 to first tab
        set tab3's URL to "http://me.com"
    end tell
   
    repeat while loading of tab1 or loading of tab2 or loading of tab3
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
   
    set titleOfWindowOnPrimaryScreen to windowOnPrimaryScreen's title
    set titleOfWindowOnSecondaryScreen to windowOnSecondaryScreen's title
   
    activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    set chromeWindowMenu to first menu of menu bar item "Window" of first menu bar of process "Google Chrome"
    tell process "Google Chrome" to click menu item titleOfWindowOnSecondaryScreen of chromeWindowMenu
    keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
    delay 1
    tell process "Google Chrome" to click menu item titleOfWindowOnPrimaryScreen of chromeWindowMenu
    keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
end tell

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