How can I improve the way i'm hiding/unhiding apps?

[ma...@phunky.co.uk]

So i'm setting up my work flow to un/hide apps when activating certain ones, currently it's a bit of a mess and I want to find a better way of handling it.

Ideally it should just hide all apps apart from those defined, but i'm struggling to get things working (i'm new to both Hammerspoon and Lua)

Below is what i've got now, any help would be much appreciated

-- Setup

hs.window.animationDuration = 0

hs.window.setShadows(false)

-- App vars

local chrome    = hs.appfinder.appFromName("Google Chrome")

local iterm     = hs.appfinder.appFromName("iTerm2")

local subl      = hs.appfinder.appFromName("Sublime Text")

local finder    = hs.appfinder.appFromName("Finder")

local mail      = hs.appfinder.appFromName("Mail")

local hipchat   = hs.appfinder.appFromName("HipChat")

-- Layout

local full      = {0.005, 0.006, 0.992, 0.987}

local center    = {0.2, 0.2, 0.6, 0.6}

local focus     = {0.005, 0.006, 0.690, 0.987}

local aux       = {0.7, 0.006, 0.299, 0.990}

hs.layout.apply({

  {"Google Chrome", nil, nil, full},

  {"Mail", nil, nil, full},

  {"HipChat", nil, nil, full},

  {"Sublime Text", nil, nil, focus},

  {"iTerm2", "Default", nil, aux},

  {"Finder", nil, nil, center},

})

-- App watches

function applicationWatcher(name, event, app)

    if (event == hs.application.watcher.activated) then

        -- hs.alert.show(name);

        if (app == subl or app == iterm) then

            iterm:unhide()

            subl:unhide()

            chrome:hide()

            finder:hide()

            mail:hide()

            hipchat:hide()

        end

    end

end

local appWatcher = hs.application.watcher.new(applicationWatcher)

appWatcher:start()

[Chris Jones]

Hey

I think your layout tables are a bit wrong, e.g. your "full" one seems to be trying to make the window 0.9 pixels wide/tall.

While I haven't completely thought this through, I think the approach I would take to your problem is to have a table with something like this:

appHideOMatic = {

 ["Google Chrome"] = {

    ["app"] = hs.appfinder.appFromName("Google Chrome"),

    ["alsoShow"] = {"Mail", "HipChat"},

 },

["iTerm2"] = {

    ["app"] = hs.appfinder.appFromName("iTerm2"),

    ["alsoShow"] = {"Sublime Text", "Finder"},

},

}

Then in the hs.application.watcher.activated event handler I'd pull out the entry for the current app, then iterate over the whole table and hide anything that isn't the current app or in the appShow list.

Cheers,

Chris

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Cheers,

Chris

[ma...@phunky.co.uk]

I prefer to have a slight gap around my windows which is why the full is not quite full :D

Ideally i'd prefer to be able to just use a layout for each type, but i'm not sure on the best way for hiding all visible windows. 

[ma...@phunky.co.uk]

Ended up doing this;

-- App watches

function applicationWatcher(name, event, app)

    if (event == hs.application.watcher.activated) then

        -- hs.alert.show(name);

        for key, running in pairs(hs.application.runningApplications()) do

          if( app ~= running ) then

            running:hide()

          end

        end

        if (app == subl or app == iterm) then

            if iterm    then iterm:unhide()  end

            if subl     then subl:unhide()   end

        end

    end

end

Now if I could just figure out a way for giving windows a default size without naming them i'd be pretty much done.