I love to run a script that does a bunch of cool things revolving around opening a new TextEdit doc & setting the bounds to {0, 22, 1280, 796} (covers the entire screen on my macbook). Unfortunately, when I launch the file from Finder of from Dock after it having been saved, it won’t retain the beautiful boundaries. What if a script could do:
in response to the opening of all files in folder x
check to see whether they are TextEdit
and if they are
make the bounds of the window they open in equal to {0, 22, 1280, 796}
and I know the script wouldn’t actually look anything like this.
I think you need to check the path of the open doc. Also the simple way would be to have this script runs as a stay open app, using a on idle. But a better way would to use a Users Agent (luanchd,).
Here is the script, you would need to add the on idle bits if you wanted to go down that path.
And save it as a stay onep app.
But if you wanted to use it with a Users Agent, then save it as a text file, and chmod it to be executable.
And use a program like Lingon to create your Agent.
#!/usr/bin/osascript
property file_ext : "txt"
tell application "TextEdit"
set docPath to path of document 1
set docPathP to ((POSIX file docPath) as alias)
set docName to name of document 1
tell application "Finder" to set {FileType, NameExten} to {file type of docPathP, name extension of docPathP}
# check for path
if docPath contains "/Users/userName/Desktop/patheTo/textfiles/" then
# check for extesion
if {FileType, NameExten} contains file_ext then
set bounds of window docName to {0, 22, 1280, 796}
end if
end if
end tell
Here is an example of a Agent.
It will run at login and run the above script every 5 seconds.
You could link it to only run when TextEdit is running.
And if you are using spaces then you will need to work out how to Textedit change the bounds in of the window if its not in the current one. (That maybe a bug in my system?)
#!/usr/bin/osascript
property file_ext : "txt"
property youFolderPath : "/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/TextDocs/"
# check to see if Textedit is running.
tell application "System Events"
if (exists application process "TextEdit") then
#if it is then go to the run_me() subroutine below
my run_me()
end if
end tell
on run_me()
try
tell application "TextEdit"
set docPath to path of document 1
set docPathP to ((POSIX file docPath) as alias)
set docName to name of document 1
tell application "Finder" to set {FileType, NameExten} to {file type of docPathP, name extension of docPathP}
# check for path
if docPath contains youFolderPath then
# check for extesion
if {FileType, NameExten} contains file_ext then
set bounds of window docName to {0, 22, 1280, 796}
end if
end if
end tell
end try
end run_me
1, Replace “/Users/USERNAME/Desktop/TextDocs/” with the path of your text folder in.
2, Save the script as a TEXT file some where.
3,Open terminal. and Type the he command
4, drag and drop the file you saved on to the terminal window.
( This will write the path of the file for you, which is needed in the command)
example:
.
5, hit return/enter.
The file should now be executable.
6, Download Lingon
-IN Lingon.
1, Click the New Button.
2, choose my agnets, and then OK it.
3, In the Name field type the name for the agent.
4, click ‘CHOOSE’ in the what field, and Nav to you new file. Select It and and the click ‘Open’
5, Type 5 in the ‘Run it Every:’ and choose ‘seconds’, you want it to run.
Click Save.
Log out and back in.
Note I have note tested this on my system. But it should work.
You will need to do more research to tweak it.
