Using Applescript to position Xojo windows

General
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I’m trying to get xojo to position its window on my 3rd screen, using an applescript.

‘tell application “Xojo” to set the bound of the front window to {1440, -461, 3359, 618}’

Running that using Shell:
osacript - a ‘tell application “Xojo” to set the bound of the front window to {1440, -461, 3359, 618}’

Running this while debugging my project, Shell returns this result:

27:85: execution error: Xojo got an error: Can’t set bounds of window 1 to {1440, -461, 3359, 618}. (-10006)

This applescript:
tell application “Finder” to get the bounds of the window of the desktop
Reports:
{-1920, -471, 3360, 900}

Which suggests the bounds specified are within the valid range.

I just ran it again, and it made my 2nd screen turn black. Maybe there is something really haywire with my application.

I am wondering if anyone knows whether xojo responds as one would expect to the bounds setting.

BTW I’m using Xojo 2015 R3.1

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You can test things by recording them in Script Editor.
Xojo is not AppleScript-able.

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OK thanks Tim
Didn’t know it wasn’t.

4

You can view a list of things you can AppleScript in your /Applications/ folder by going to File > Open Dictionary
This is also the reference documentation so you don’t have to guess how things work.

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Yes its not in the dictionary and browsing, won’t let you open xojo. So no sdef file I presume

Oddly, this works:

tell application “Xojo” to quit

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Because “Quit” is a standard function that’s handled by default. There’s a couple more, I think open, new, activate, hide, show. For everything else there’s mastercard.

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From the Cocoa Scripting Guide:

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The Xojo IDE could be made scriptable now with my new scriptable classes, which provide the entire Cocoa Scripting API in Xojo now. But I doubt Xojo is having any resources for doing that, ever.

Also, this should not be posted in Geneal but in Targets/OSX probably.