Find out if an application is minimized in the dock

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#1

How can a script determine if an application is minimized on the dock? And if it is, how do you un-minimize it?

#2

Hi,

try this


tell application "System Events"
	tell process "iChat"
		if visible is false then set visible to true
	end tell
end tell
#3

That doesn’t seem to work (with Evernote, which is the app I’m using)

#4

of course you have to replace “iChat” with the process name of your app

#5

I did that - of course! But it doesn’t work.

#6

You don’t minimize an application. You minimize a window of an application. As StefanK pointed out you hide or show an application by setting its visible property.

So you need to target a window of an application. I don’t have Evernote so I’ll use Safari as an example. Open a Safari window and then minimize it. Then run this script and look at the properties…

tell application "Safari"
	properties of window 1
end tell

You can see the window is minimized by its properties…

{document:document “MacScripter / Post a reply” of application “Safari”, closeable:true, zoomed:true, class:window, index:1, visible:false, name:“MacScripter / Post a reply”, modal:false, miniaturizable:true, titled:true, miniaturized:true, floating:false, id:549, resizable:true, bounds:{12, 22, 1177, 800}, current tab:tab 2 of window id 549 of application “Safari”, zoomable:true}

So you can use a script like this to un-miniatureize a window…

tell application "Safari"
	tell window 1
		if miniaturized then set miniaturized to false
	end tell
end tell
#7

Hank, thanks. It works!!