This code snippet might be useful for anyone wanting to write a script to resize your application windows automatically to fit on your display.
Note: I’m fairly sure you need to enable UI scripting for this to work.
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
set dock_dimensions to size in list 1
set dock_width to item 1 of dock_dimensions
set dock_height to item 2 of dock_dimensions
end tell
Thanks! I’ve updated my AppleScript on my blog to include this snippet.
[...] only found it in Java—so if anyone knows feel free to leave a comment. Finally, after seeing this post by Jamie Matthews, I added some functionality to automatically set bottom_bound to the height of [...]
[...] only found it in Java—so if anyone knows feel free to leave a comment. Finally, after seeing this post by Jamie Matthews, I added some functionality to automatically set bottom_bound to the height of [...]
[...] 5. Jamie Matthews’ post on “How to get the dimensions of the dock”. [...]
Thanks for the post Jamie. I used this in a post on my new blog on how to resize windows from the keyboard. Here is a link to the post.
PS Sorry about the domain name change. Unfortunately the pingback above (previous comment) now has the wrong address.
Hey Jamie, this is great. But how did you find out about “set dock_dimensions to size in list 1″? Why does this work?
I wish I could remember how I figured it out, but it was two years ago. Lots of trial and error, I think.
Oh, well. I really appreciate it anyway. If you ever do remember or rediscover the secret, please post the answer.
Thanks again.
Thanks a lot !!