Active Window Title

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  1. ruhi, Jul 14, 2009

    ruhi macrumors member

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    hello, i want to get the title of the active application's window...Please help me how can i get that?? :confused:

    Thanks in advance.
     
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  2. SRossi, Jul 14, 2009

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    #2
    I would advise you to have a look at NSWindow in the documentation.

    (Managing Titles section)

    Stephen
     
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  3. HiRez, Jul 14, 2009

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    You didn't say what you were using or what the purpose is. It sounds like you might want AppleScript (if the mystery window is not your app)?
     
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  4. ruhi, Jul 14, 2009

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    active window title

    i don't find any help in managing titles as i dont know which is the active application.

    i can find the active application name with some other information my [[NSWorkspace sharedworkspace] activeapplication]; but i am not able to get the title of this active application's window.
     
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  5. ruhi, Jul 14, 2009

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    active window title

    i am not looking for my application if its active, i want it if any other application other than my own application is active i want its window title.

    Please help me!
     
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  6. HiRez, Jul 15, 2009

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    #6
    Here's an AppleScript I found that will do the job:

    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
    You can call AppleScript from Cocoa using NSAppleScript, or you can do an NSTask and call it from the command-line using the osascript command. See this article for details. There might be a way to do it directly from Cocoa but I'm guessing AppleScript is going to be your best bet here.
     
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  7. ruhi, Jul 16, 2009

    ruhi thread starter macrumors member

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    Thanks

    Hey Thanks it worked..Thanx:)
     
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  8. ruhi, Jul 24, 2009

    ruhi thread starter macrumors member

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    Active window title

    I am facing few problems with this apple script now.

    Like when i open firefox, it shows a window "Where is Firefox-bin?"

    why is this coming??
    I think i need to do this by cocoa.

    Please suugest me some way.
    Thanks,
    Ruhi.
     
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