Moving a window with ASOC

Scripting Forums AppleScriptObjC and Xcode
#1

Hello,

I’m a full newbie in ASOC and Xcode and I’m stuck with this “problem”:
I have an application’s window (bound as “mainWindow” outlet in the appDelegate) of which I want to get its origin coordinates.
Let’s say X0, Y0
Then I have a modal window (outlet = progressWindow) which contains a progress bar and a prompt.
I want that this progressWindow will display always at a fixed position relative to my mainWindow when called to display.
Let’s say (X1 = X0 + a) and (Y1 = Y0 + b)
First: How to retrieve X0 and Y0?
Second: how to move my “progressWindow” to (X1, Y1) requested position?

I found an example in ObjctiveC but I’m unable to translate in good ASOC, always get an error :confused:

Thank you in advance.
BTW, many thanks to the numerous posters on Macscripter from whom I took tools and tips to built my modest application.

Joseph

#2

You find the windows coordinates by asking for its frame() – this returns an NSRect, which gives you it’s origin (bottom-left x, y) and size (width, height). To move a window you can use one of several frame-related methods: setFrame:, setFrameOrigin:, setFrameDisplay: or setFrame:display:animate:.

#3

Thank you Shane, I’m about to dig into the second part (moving window).
I just found a method, not sure it’s very elegant but doing the job, about retrieving X0 and Y0.


on giveMyFrame()--  the display dialog is for example
        set dimsWin to mainWindow's frame as list
        set dims2Win to (item 1 of dimsWin) as record
        set XY to (origin of dims2Win as list)
        set X0 to item 1 of XY as text
        set Y0 to item 2 of XY as text
        display dialog X0 &  " - " & Y0
 end giveMyFrame

Regards,
Joseph

#4

If you use:

set dimsWin to mainWindow's frame()

You’ll get a record something like this:

{origin:{x:100.0, y:100.0}, |size|:{width:200.0, height:100.0}}

So you can then do:

set XO to x of origin of dimsWin
set YO to y of origin of dimswin
#5

Hello Shane,

Obviously smarter than my awkward function! :wink:

Thank you for it: I always considered that “style” in writing code is almost as important as efficiency.

Regards
Joseph