macOS Script broke after Mountain Lion

[peregrinare]

Hi,

Hope you guys can help. I googled and checked this forum, but no luck. Please see below. I did turn on "Enable access for assistive devices." Thanks.


The following used to work:

tell application "System Events" to get name of process whose frontmost is true

Now I get this error:

error "Can’t get name of process." number -1728 from name of «class prcs»

 

[kryten2]

I get the same error and I'm running Leopard. Don't know if this is what you want but this works :

tell application "System Events" to get name of every process whose frontmost is true

 

[chown33]

I get the same error and I'm running Leopard.

I see the same error on Tiger and Snow Leopard.

I see no way the originally posted code could work. There's a word missing before "process". Qualifiers like "first" or "last" would work, and they have the same result. Leaving the word out doesn't work.

This also works:

tell application "System Events" to get name of processes whose frontmost is true

Note the plural processes, not the singular. And the output is a list, not a single string.