macOS Active Window Title

[ruhi]

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

Thanks in advance.

 

[SRossi]

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

(Managing Titles section)

Stephen

 

[HiRez]

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)?

 

[ruhi]

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.

 

[ruhi]

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!

 

[HiRez]

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

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.

 

[ruhi]

Thanks

Hey Thanks it worked..Thanx

 

[ruhi]

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.