Resize Stickies

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#1

I can’t for the life of me work out how to resize stickies.

I have been using:

tell application “Stickies”
try
set bounds of front window to {0, 50, 400, 400} – {left, top, right, bottom}
on error e
display dialog e buttons {“OK”} default button 1 with icon 0
end try
end tell

This however doesn’t work… I don’t think stickies understands the term “bounds”.

Thanks in advance for any help!

#2

Hi,

Stickies.app is not scriptable.
On my machine the position can be set with System Events,
but although there is also a property size, changing it has no effect.

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Stickies"
		try
			tell window 1
				set position of to {0, 50}
				set size of to {400, 400} -- doesn't work
			end tell
		on error e
			display dialog e buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon 0
		end try
	end tell
end tell

end tell
#3

thank-you so much for your quick reply!

I’ll just have to build a manual resize step into my process, but what you’ve suggested will definitely help.
Another question for you, can you use a script to apply formatting to the font?

Ultimately what I want to end up with is a sticky that covers the entire desktop, is transparent and floating and has some very large text in it…
I do a lot of imaging and want to have a sticky that keeps people away from the machine whilst it’s being worked on

Thanks again!

#4

not scriptable means not scriptable.

System Events can manipulate UI elements like windows and buttons but cannot set fonts.

Alternatively you can create an AppleScript Studio application which displays a large floating HUD window