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Created November 2, 2016 19:01
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Applescript to Center a Window
tell application "Finder"
set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop
set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize
set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize
end tell
property WP : 0.1 -- prop of w free screen we want
property HP : 0.02 -- prop of w free screen we want
tell application "System Events"
-- set screenHeight to (screenHeight - dockHeight)
set myFrontMost to name of first item of ¬
(processes whose frontmost is true)
end tell
if myFrontMost is "Sublime Text" then
tell application "System Events" to tell application process myFrontMost
set stprops to get the properties of window 1
set windowXl to item 1 of (position of stprops)
set windowYt to item 2 of (position of stprops)
set windowWidth to item 1 of (size of stprops)
set windowHeight to item 2 of (size of stprops)
end tell
else
tell application myFrontMost
set windowSize to bounds of window 1
end tell
set windowXl to item 1 of windowSize
set windowYt to item 2 of windowSize
set windowXr to item 3 of windowSize
set windowYb to item 4 of windowSize
set windowWidth to windowXr - windowXl
set windowHeight to windowYb - windowYt
end if
if myFrontMost is "Sublime Text" then
tell application "System Events" to tell application process myFrontMost
set position of window 1 to {¬
round (screenWidth * WP), ¬
round (screenHeight * HP) ¬
}
set size of window 1 to {¬
round (screenWidth * (1 - 2 * WP)), ¬
round (screenHeight * (1 - 2 * HP)) ¬
}
end tell
else
tell application myFrontMost
set bounds of window 1 to {¬
round ((screenWidth - windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬
round ((screenHeight - windowHeight) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬
round ((screenWidth + windowWidth) / 2) rounding as taught in school, ¬
round ((screenHeight + windowHeight) / 2) rounding as taught in school ¬
}
end tell
end if
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ibuys commented Nov 2, 2016

Found this script somewhere, modified it to get the screen size without calling out to a command line tool.

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