OSX Lion AppleScript : How to get current space # from mission control?

I’m trying to figure this out myself. Not there yet, but in the right direction: Each Mission Control “space” gets a uuid assigned to it… …except for the very first one (AFAIK), and the Dashboard one. You can read them here: $ defaults read com.apple.spaces $ defaults read com.apple.desktop File locations: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist Here’s mine. … Read more

Can the UI Automation instrument be run from the command line?

instruments -t /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Instruments/\ PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> for xcode >= 4.5 instruments -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/\ AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> for xcode >= 6.1 instruments -w <device ID> -t \ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/\ AutomationInstrument.xrplugin/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate \ <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <path_to_script.js> \ -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path> There a few important … Read more

How to check in AppleScript if an app is running, without launching it – via osascript utility

I suspect the reason you are getting this is because each time you call the script from the command line with osascript the script is being compiled. The act of compiling on a tell application will afaik make the app launch. Calling the script from the command line with osascript from a pre-compiled file i.e … Read more