Count of Tabs in Safari 2.0

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#1

I tried using the “radio buttons” call to get the count of tabs in Safari but it just errors out.
All i want to do is cycle through the open tabs at 5 second intervals, but I would like it to stop when it gets to the last tab.

There is no reference to tabs in the Safari dictionary, or on Apple’s Website.

Anyone have any ideas?

#2

This might work for you if you can stand the flashing through the tabs:

set theTabs to {}
tell application "Safari"
	activate
	repeat
		set thisTab to URL of document 1 of window 1
		if thisTab is not in theTabs then
			set end of theTabs to thisTab
			tell application "System Events" to keystroke "]" using {command down, shift down}
		else
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
end tell
{Count of theTabs, theTabs}
#3

Something like this might do the trick, ddoscher:

to countSafariTabs()
	tell application "System Events" to tell (group 1 of window 1 of process "Safari" whose class of UI elements ¬
		is class of buttons and "" is not in title of buttons) to if exists then return count buttons
	0
end countSafariTabs

set tabCount to countSafariTabs()
-- do something with tabCount...

Edit 1: script modified to fix bug (details below)
Edit 2: incorporated in handler

#4

Sheesh, Kai;

When I run your GUI script with 3 tabs open, it returns 17. As it happens, that’s how many bookmark bar items I have. Do you have your bookmark bar?

#5

Yeah, I tested with and without the address bar, bookmarks bar and status bar - in every possible combination - and it worked every time. I just went through the entire routine again, with the same results.

However, your experience indicated some other difference between our configurations that had clearly been overlooked - and I just figured it out. My bookmarks bar contains a few more bookmarks than can be accommodated on-screen, so a menu button is displayed to allow access to the off-screen items. That button, tiny as it is, fooled me into believing the structure of the bars differed consistently. Of course, they don’t - at least, not in the way I had assumed.

(That’s what I just love about UI scripting - the sheer uncertainty of it all.) :wink:

I appreciate the feedback, Adam. In this sort of situation, it’s not easy to cover every possible scenario - so the more input, the better.

Anyway, I’ve modified the above script to incorporate (what I believe to be) a fix. Do let me know if you find any other bugs that need attention.
:slight_smile:

#6

Which, in a nutshell, summarizes my reticence to try anything more complex than keystroke or key code commands. You’re braver than I am.

Having said that your fix works perfectly on my machine, my Safari.