Maximise Window from applescript?

Rob Russell

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Apr 13, 2021, 5:33:30 PM4/13/21

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Hi,

Just trying to adapt a distraction free script I found on this list and am looking for a way to toggle the BBEdit Window to Full Screen - you know, when you click on the little green dot in the top left of the window, or hit escape to pop-out of that mode.

The zoomed property in A/S seems to refer to the natural size of the window as defined by Window->Save Default Text/Project Window, which is not what I'm looking for here.

Any hints, anyone?

Thanks

Rob

Nestor Aguilera

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Apr 13, 2021, 6:15:29 PM4/13/21

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Googling "applescript maximize current window" I found <https://gist.github.com/FranciscoG/4a94fca5fb452f2a7dda> which seems close to what you want. You may put it with other BBEdit scripts (chapter 13 of user manual) and assign a shortcut to it (p. 25 of manual).

Best,

Nestor

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Rob Russell

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Apr 13, 2021, 7:41:03 PM4/13/21

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Thanks for that. I think the syntax is suitable for Mavericks. I certainly couldn't get that going, even after opening up security permissions. It seems that system events should be able to set the state of the zoomed property of the given window, though the syntax is opaque to me.

r

Nestor Aguilera

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Apr 13, 2021, 8:03:56 PM4/13/21

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Hi Rob,

> On 13 Apr 2021, at 20:16, Rob Russell <sum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that. I think the syntax is suitable for Mavericks. I certainly couldn't get that going, even after opening up security permissions. It seems that system events should be able to set the state of the zoomed property of the given window, though the syntax is opaque to me.
>
> r

Sorry for that, I should have tried it myself.

This one seems to work for me with BBEdit and Mojave:

#----------------------------------------------
tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
click button 2 of window 1
end tell
activate application (path to frontmost application as text)
#----------------------------------------------

Hope it works for you too.

Regards,

Nestor

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> On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 10:15:29 UTC+12 Nestor Aguilera wrote:
>
>
> > On 13 Apr 2021, at 18:32, Rob Russell <sum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just trying to adapt a distraction free script I found on this list and am looking for a way to toggle the BBEdit Window to Full Screen - you know, when you click on the little green dot in the top left of the window, or hit escape to pop-out of that mode.
> >
> > The zoomed property in A/S seems to refer to the natural size of the window as defined by Window->Save Default Text/Project Window, which is not what I'm looking for here.
> >
> > Any hints, anyone?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rob
>
> Googling "applescript maximize current window" I found <https://gist.github.com/FranciscoG/4a94fca5fb452f2a7dda> which seems close to what you want. You may put it with other BBEdit scripts (chapter 13 of user manual) and assign a shortcut to it (p. 25 of manual).
>
> Best,
>
> Nestor
>
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jj

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Apr 14, 2021, 4:31:24 AM4/14/21

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Hi Rob,

This AppleScript seems to do the trick.

```applescript

use AppleScript version "2.7"

use scripting additions

tell application "BBEdit"

activate

tell application "System Events"

try

tell process "BBEdit"

set frontmost to true

click menu item "Enter Full Screen" of menu "View" of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1

end tell

on error aMessage

display dialog aMessage

end try

end tell

```

HTH,

Jean Jourdain

Rob Russell

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Apr 14, 2021, 6:39:23 PM4/14/21

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Thanks Jean,

I don't know how many times I looked at the Window and view menus, and never saw "Enter Full Screen" 😳

so my toggle distraction mode script now looks like:

tell application "BBEdit"

activate

try

set win to text window 1

tell win

set show gutter to (not show gutter)

set show navigation bar to (not show navigation bar)

set sidebar visible to (not sidebar visible)

set show line numbers to (not show line numbers)

tell application "System Events"

tell process "BBEdit"

set frontmost to true -- is this redundant?

try

click menu item "Enter Full Screen" of menu "View" of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1

on error

click menu item "Exit Full Screen" of menu "View" of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1

end try

end tell

on error str

display alert str

end try

end tell

save that script to my FastScripts folder, give it a shortcut ctrl-shift-option-D and it works a treat.