Open finder window on a specified place on the screen
Hello,
In trying to somehow replicate the drop stack in PathFinder (www.cocoatech.com), I use a very simple script that I save as app bundle and place on the finder toolbar. The script is
do shell script "open /Users/myusername/temp"
I know this is not quite Applescript, but it works .
I have two questions to improve my little script
1) Is there a way to force the new finder window to open on a specified place on screen (ideally to the side of and flushed against the window from which it was called)
2) If I close the "temp" window without toolbar and sidebar (click on the oval top-right button), it will come that way when called again. However, I may forget sometimes to close temp that way. Is there a way to force a finder window to be opened without toolbar and sidebar?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
MarceloC
I think I answered my own question, thanks to an older post by Camelot on another topic. I use the following script
tell application "Finder"
set {l, t, r, b} to bounds of (Finder window 1)
do shell script "open /Users/myusername/temp"
set bounds of (Finder window 1) to {l - 305, t, l - 5, t + 300}
set current view of (Finder window 1) to icon view
set toolbar visible of (Finder window 1) to false
set the sidebar width of the (Finder window 1) to 0
set statusbar visible of (Finder window 1) to false
end tell
This works like a charm! Now my appetite is whetted, so I want an even more refined script . I tried to set the path bar to invisible (which I have visible by default), but failed. I tried with "set pathbar visible...", but that did not work. Maybe the Path Bar is a global property for all finder windows and cannot be set individually?
Also, expressions of the form
set the iconsize of (Finder window 1) to X (or with textsize or gridsize)
are accepted and compiled by Script editor. However, all my attempts at puting a value for X led to an error at execution time. Is this the correct way to do this? What is the format to do it?
I guess an even more encompassing question is where does one find this kind of info (as in being able to know everything I can set for a window with applescript...)
Thanks again. This is a great support list!
MarceloC
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