In case I’m not: I just posted the code I’m using in Musicality over on StackOverflow…it calls right into the plugin directly (as it sounds like you were doing before), and works even with hidden windows.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2128235/how-do-i-send-key-events-to-a-flash-movie-in-webkit

For the life of me I can’t seem to make it accept modifier keys though (Command in particular, needed to advance the song on Grooveshark).

JT

What would be the Scripting Bridge equivalent of the following AppleScript?

set previousApp to the name of the current application — some app gets activated here, raising is window(s) to the front tell application previousApp to activate

My attempt, which probably just shows that a little knowledge is dangerous, partially works:

NSString *systemEventsAppName = @"com.apple.SystemEvents";
systemEventsApp = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:systemEventsAppName];
if (systemEventsApp == nil) {
    prependMessageToErrorChain("couldn't find an app named \"%s\"", [systemEventsAppName UTF8String]);
    return FAILURE;
}
if ( [systemEventsApp isRunning] ) {
    for (SystemEventsItem *systemEventsProcess in [systemEventsApp processes]) {
        NSDictionary *processProperties = [systemEventsProcess properties];
        NSString *processName    = [processProperties objectForKey:@"name"];
        NSString *processIsFront = [processProperties objectForKey:@"frontmost"];
        NSLog(@"getPreviousApp: processName = \"%@\", processIsFront = \"%@\"", processName, processIsFront);
    }
}

Although this identifies the app that has focus, it seems like this is the wrong approach – the loop through the processes is slow – it stops for a second or two on one of the processes. Is there somewhere I can look for guidance? A mailing list?

Thanks,

– Pete

My style is often very tempered by working in a large team with a very wide range of skills, so I work very hard to isolate magic into places that I will notice in the subversion commit logs. Those who work on solo projects or with smaller teams of highly skilled developers definitely may benefit from other styles.

For those reading along at home, +load is basically a super-magical form of +initialize that gets called at load time (rather than at first method send), and is so special-cased in the runtime that multiple categories can implement it and they all will run correctly. It is wonderfully useful when you need it. Thanks for mentioning it.