applescript - Exit Full Screen menu bar item

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Level 1

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Is it possible to click the Exit Full Screen menu bar item?

I cannot get a reference from Accessibility Inspector nor UI Browser.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 2, 2013 5:24 PM

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Answer 1

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Level 5

4,635 points

Maybe you could use the Escape key, like this for example:

tell application "Safari" to activate

tell application "System Events" to key code 53

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Answer 2

Level 1

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That's not exactly what I'm asking for but thanks anyway. That works too.

Eventually I used the AXFullScreen attribute and this script.

tellapplication "System Events" totell (firstprocesswhosefrontmostistrue)

delay 0.05

if front window exists then

tell front window

if value of attribute "AXFullScreen" then

set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" to false

else

set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" to true

end if

end tell

end if

end tell

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Answer 3

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Nice!

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