ScreenShot of Window of Unscriptable App

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

I’ve been using this, which works, but seems very clumsy to me. When you run it, the frontmost window of the app selected (shown as Script Debugger 4) should turn transparent blue. Clicking the mouse on it should save the screenshot to the desktop. Are there nicer ways?

set snap to "Script Debugger 4" -- not scriptable
set tPath to "~/desktop/"
tell application "System Events"
	set P to application processes where it is visible
	repeat with theApp in P
		if name of theApp is snap then
			set W to title of windows of theApp
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	set B to {}
	repeat with aTitle in W
		if contents of aTitle is not "" then
			set B to (contents of aTitle & ".png") as Unicode text
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

do shell script "screencapture -iW " & tPath & B
#2

Hi Adam,

what’s about this:

set snap to "Script Debugger 4" -- not scriptable
set tPath to "~/desktop/"

tell application "System Events"
	set P to windows of (get 1st application process where it is visible and name is snap)
	set B to (title of 1st item of P whose title is not "") & ".png"
end tell
do shell script "screencapture -iW " & tPath & B
#3

Thank you sir. Much neater. :smiley: