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/ GetNameAndTitleOfActiveWindow.scpt
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February 11, 2013 10:38
[AppleScript] Get Name of active window | Returns the name / title of the active (frontmost) window
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| # taken from user Albert's answer on StackOverflow | |
| # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5292204/macosx-get-foremost-window-title | |
| # tested on Mac OS X 10.7.5 | |
| global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle | |
| set windowTitle to "" | |
| tell application "System Events" | |
| set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true | |
| set frontAppName to name of frontApp |
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| # plutil.pl 1.6 - implementation of binary/UTF-8 (text) XML conversion of plist files | |
| # does not (yet) support OS X plutil command line syntax | |
| # 1.0 - first public release | |
| # 1.1 - added support for date Type 3; fixed real Type 2 | |
| # 1.2 - fixed handling of empty arrays | |
| # 1.3 - fixed handling of large strings and empty keys | |
| # 1.4 - write utf8 in XML, convert as necessary on read | |
| # 1.5 - read/write 8 byte integers and negative integers; handle special XML chars in dictionary keys | |
| # - now requires Math::BigInt |