simple as opening two windows side by side in OSX

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#1

all i’m trying to do is to open two windows side by side,
first window opens fine but the second one disappears! the window menu says that it is there but i can’t see it, any help on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced

tell application “Finder”

open folder "Cafe Tacuba"
set bounds of window "Cafe Tacuba" to {100, 100, 1155, 450}

open folder "lalo" of folder "Cafe Tacuba"
set bounds of window "lalo" to {101, 601, 1155, 450}

end tell

#2

When I ran your script on a couple of my folders, it appeared to open one of the windows off of the screen. Is it possible that this is happening on your setup too?

#3

yes, that happens sometimes

i either get a white square, or nothing at all, but like i said before, the window menu says that there is a window there, but can’t see anything,

what has worked sometimes is if open the second window within the bounds of the first one, but that is not what i want, i want to be able to place one on top and the other one just below it, preferably in colum view, i move files all the time and this would help me greatly

thanks again

#4

Maybe some of Apple’s toolbar scripts will be useful. :slight_smile:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/toolbar/

#5

the y coordinates for your second window don’t look right. The second coordinate is less than the first.

#6

Your y coordinates for the socond window don’t llok right. The first coordinate is more than the second.

#7

The y coordinates for the second window don’t look right. The first is greater than the second.

#8

sorry about that. Something seems to be wrong. An error keeps occuring when posting.

#9

thank you guys for your help

the ‘Tandem’ Script does exactly what i wanted!

thanks again for the refrence rob