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get information on the currently active mac window in ruby / applescript
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require 'rubygems' | |
require 'bundler/setup' | |
require 'appscript' | |
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480866/get-the-title-of-the-current-active-window-document-in-mac-os-x | |
while true | |
frontmost = Appscript.app('System Events').application_processes.get.select{ |a| a.frontmost.get }.first | |
if frontmost | |
puts frontmost.name.get | |
if frontmost.windows.count > 0 | |
window = frontmost.windows.first | |
puts window.name.get | |
# Chrome Active Tab | |
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2483033/get-the-url-of-the-frontmost-tab-from-chrome-on-os-x | |
if frontmost.name.get == 'Google Chrome' | |
tab = Appscript.app('Google Chrome').windows[0].active_tab | |
puts tab.URL.get | |
puts tab.name.get | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
sleep 0.25 | |
end | |
# System Idle Time | |
# http://www.dssw.co.uk/sleepcentre/threads/system_idle_time_how_to_retrieve.html | |
# ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | perl -ane 'if (/Idle/) {$idle=(pop @F)/1000000000; print $idle,"\n"; last}' |
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Can you suggest something for Windows?