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StevieD
StevieD

Reputation: 7443

Activate a window in an application with a title

Trying to figure out how to activate a window in iTerm with a particular name/title with applescript. My latest effort:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

tell application "iTerm2"
  set winlist to every window
  repeat with win in winlist
    set the_title to title of window win
    if the_title contains "Development" then
      activate win
    end if
  end repeat
end tell

But I'm getting this error:

execution error: iTerm got an error: Can’t make title of window (window id 203) into type specifier. (-1700)

The window is in full screen mode so I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2141

Answers (1)

user3439894
user3439894

Reputation: 7555

The following example AppleScript code works for me under macOS High Sierra, in Script Editor, to switch to the full screen window containing the target name:

tell application "iTerm"
    set winlist to every window
    repeat with win in winlist
        set the_title to name of win
        if the_title contains "Development" then
            activate
            set index of win to 1
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

If the target window is not in full screen is just raises it to the front.

Upvotes: 3

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