MacOSX: get foremost window title

Question

I am using this code to get the window title:

tell application \"System Events\"
    set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is tru         


        

Answer 1

Building off of Albert's answer, I'd instead do

global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle

set windowTitle to ""
tell application "System Events"
    set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
    set frontAppName to name of frontApp
    set windowTitle to "no window"
    tell process frontAppName
        if exists (1st window whose value of attribute "AXMain" is true) then
            tell (1st window whose value of attribute "AXMain" is true)
                set windowTitle to value of attribute "AXTitle"
            end tell
        end if
    end tell
end tell

return {frontAppName, windowTitle}

This is a hack and I have no experience, but the advantage is that it doesn't crash if there's no window.

Answer 2

This seems to work always:

global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle

set windowTitle to ""
tell application "System Events"
    set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
    set frontAppName to name of frontApp
    tell process frontAppName
        tell (1st window whose value of attribute "AXMain" is true)
            set windowTitle to value of attribute "AXTitle"
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

return {frontAppName, windowTitle}

Got the idea from here.

Answer 3

Give the following script a try:

tell application "System Events"
    set window_name to name of first window of (first application process whose frontmost is true)
end tell

I haven't verified that it works for TextMaker, though.