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Greetings,

I'm a complete newbie to OSX (Tiger). I'm a little confused on the
behaviour of the Cmd-Tab key combination. Cmd-Tab will display
applications minimized to the Dock, but selecting such an application
does not restore it (nothing seems to happen at all.)

Can I restore a minimized application using the Cmd-Tab key
combination? I've found that QuickSilver[1] restores minimized
applications, but I find it takes just a little too much effort.

/Martin

[1] Great application! It alone seems worth the effort to switch!
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I don't know what Quicksilver is, but you can do the same thing with the Applescript:


tell application "System Events"
set activeProcesses to every process
repeat with processCounter from 1 to count activeProcesses
set thisProcess to item processCounter of activeProcesses
if visible of thisProcess is true then
set visible of thisProcess to false
else
set visible of thisProcess to true
end if
end repeat
end tell

The Applescript menu is not enabled by default, you have to turn it on.

-- Gnarlie


Entity Martin Lorentzson uttered this profundity:

Greetings,

I'm a complete newbie to OSX (Tiger). I'm a little confused on the
behaviour of the Cmd-Tab key combination. Cmd-Tab will display
applications minimized to the Dock, but selecting such an application
does not restore it (nothing seems to happen at all.)

Can I restore a minimized application using the Cmd-Tab key
combination? I've found that QuickSilver[1] restores minimized
applications, but I find it takes just a little too much effort.

/Martin

[1] Great application! It alone seems worth the effort to switch!

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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

Martin Lorentzson wrote:

I'm a complete newbie to OSX (Tiger). I'm a little confused on the
behaviour of the Cmd-Tab key combination. Cmd-Tab will display
applications minimized to the Dock, but selecting such an application
does not restore it (nothing seems to happen at all.)

Cmt-tab just foregrounds a running application. If the chosen
application's window is minimized or closed, then only the menu bar
appears at the top of the screen.

Hint: when using cmd-tab, don't hide windows with the minimize
function. Intead, foreground the app you want with cmd-tab and then
hide all others with opt-cmt-H. Clean and nice.

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Holger Lillqvist <lillqvis@ling.helsinki.fi> writes:

Cmt-tab just foregrounds a running application. If the chosen
application's window is minimized or closed, then only the menu bar
appears at the top of the screen.

Ah! Since I'm not used to having the menu bar on the top of the
screen, I hadn't noticed. Thanks for pointing that out.

Hint: when using cmd-tab, don't hide windows with the minimize
function. Intead, foreground the app you want with cmd-tab and then
hide all others with opt-cmt-H. Clean and nice.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I wanted. Thanks.
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What kind of dumass answer is that?

m-m

In article <C063B52D.17E69%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

I don't know what Quicksilver is, but you can do the same thing with the Applescript:

tell application "System Events"
set activeProcesses to every process
repeat with processCounter from 1 to count activeProcesses
set thisProcess to item processCounter of activeProcesses
if visible of thisProcess is true then
set visible of thisProcess to false
else
set visible of thisProcess to true
end if
end repeat
end tell

The Applescript menu is not enabled by default, you have to turn it on.

-- Gnarlie

Entity Martin Lorentzson uttered this profundity:

Greetings,

I'm a complete newbie to OSX (Tiger). I'm a little confused on the behaviour of the Cmd-Tab key combination. Cmd-Tab will display applications minimized to the Dock, but selecting such an application
does not restore it (nothing seems to happen at all.)

Can I restore a minimized application using the Cmd-Tab key
combination? I've found that QuickSilver[1] restores minimized applications, but I find it takes just a little too much effort.

/Martin

[1] Great application! It alone seems worth the effort to switch!

--
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In article <C063B52D.17E69%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

if visible of thisProcess is true then
set visible of thisProcess to false
else
set visible of thisProcess to true
end if

Why not this instead?

set the visible of thisProcess to not the visible of thisProcess

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