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DoowopDJ
DoowopDJ

Reputation: 17

Detecting if a window is open

How do I detect if my dialog window has closed?

Here are my window elements:

button "OK" of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
button "Cancel" of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
text field 1 of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
static text "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events"
static text "Enter Remote Database Refresh Interval in minutes:" of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
button 3 of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
button 4 of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events", 
button 5 of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of application process "OsiriX" of application "System Events",

As a noob, my apologies if I am asking very basic questions. I do have some existing scripts to work with and I seem to know how they work, but when I try to refactor them I seem to spend too much time find a solution

Upvotes: 0

Views: 992

Answers (1)

CJK
CJK

Reputation: 6092

This line is a bit odd:

set Test1 to value of static text "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of ...

static text objects are typically named after the value of the text they contain. Therefore, I would expect the value of that static text to be "RemoteDatabasePrefs".

But, if this is being done in order to get the header text of a window, you don't need to read the value of some static text object; you can access the name property or the title property for the window object instead:

set Test1 to the title of window "RemoteDatabasePrefs" of ...

The name property is clearly set to "RemoteDatabasePrefs"; title properties are often identical to the name, and both usually match the text in the header bar of the window. However, you may have come across an exception, where the name and title properties are different in value; in which case, you'll want the value of the title property, which should match the header text.

To test that the window has been closed, you use the exists command to test whether or not the window object still exists. When a window is closed, it ceases to exist from that point onwards.

tell application "System Events to tell process "OsiriX"
    set isOpen to (exists window "RemoteDatabasePrefs")
end tell

The variable isOpen will then contain a boolean value true or false telling you whether the window is open (true) or has been closed (false).

Upvotes: 1

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