Inactive Finder windows

ByteJockey · March 16, 2002, 6:55pm

I’m looking for a snippet of AS code to identify when the Finder is active, with windows showing but none of those windows are currently selected/active i.e. the user has clicked on the Desktop/background leaving other Finder windows inactive.

The correct suggestion will be rewarded with obsequious praise!

ByteJockey · March 17, 2002, 8:43am

By “windows showing”, do you mean “container windows”, “container windows but excluding pop-up windows”, “any windows at all”, or “any windows at all except pop-up windows”?

Andreas’ suggestion is pretty good. Here’s an alternative, tested in Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.2.1:
  tell application "Finder"
     it is frontmost and ¬
       (container windows whose popup is false) is not {} and ¬
         front content space is desktop's content space
   end tell
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Ray_Barber · March 18, 2002, 8:30am

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