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AppleScript Support

Illuminate provides basic AppleScript support to allow you to walk through applications, windows, and tabs and inquiry about their state. Illuminate exposes a window's name, visibility, and whether it’s frontmost or minimized. It exposes similar state data about currently running applications as well. Furthermore, Illuminate allows an AppleScript to bring either applications or windows to the front.

Basic Use:

  • The AppleScript Editor is required to script Illuminate. To launch it, go to Utilities folder in your Applications folder, and double click on the AppleScript Editor icon.

  • To see what types and actions are available, you must open Illuminate’s AppleScript dictionary. Inside of the AppleScript Editor, select the File > Open Dictionary... menu item. Next, in the Open Dictionary window, scroll down and select the application “IlluminateEngine” and press the Choose button.

  • Create a new AppleScript to work in by choosing File > New. From this document you can enter AppleScript to control Illuminate. The application name you need to target is “IlluminateEngine”.