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Jayesh
Jayesh

Reputation: 53335

finding the app window currently in focus on Mac OSX

I am writing a desktop usage statistics app. It runs a background daemon which wakes up at regular intervals, finds the name of the application window currently in focus and logs that data in database.

I manage to do this on Linux desktop with help of xprop utility (you can find it here).

How can I do the same on Mac OSX? Is there a direct/indirect way to do this from a python script? (PyObjC?)

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3045

Answers (2)

jmlw
jmlw

Reputation: 91

It should be possible to get the active window by using AppKit like the following

from AppKit import NSWorkspace

workspace = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace()
active_app = workspace.activeApplication()['NSApplicationName']

Upvotes: 3

Matthew Schinckel
Matthew Schinckel

Reputation: 35599

You can do this with AppleScript:

Get the title of the current active Window/Document in Mac OS X

You can try using appscript to generate AppleScript events from python.

Upvotes: 2

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