355726 - Not able to obtain URL from browser via AppleScript when window minimized

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 Camino/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 Camino/1.0.3

Suppose only one Camino browser window is open and a page has been loaded and is viewable.  I am able to determine the URL of this page via the following AppleScript code (tested in Script Editor among other places):

tell application "Camino"
  URL of window 0
end tell

When the aforementioned browser window is minimized to the Dock, URL determination using the same aforementioned AppleScript no longer works. When testing with Script Editor, I get a dialog box with the following sort of content:

AppleScript Error
Camino got an error:
NSReceivedEvaluationScriptError: 3

I think whether the browser window is minimized to the Dock or not should have no influence on determining the URL (of the active tab) of a browser window.

For comparison, I tried a similar scenario with Safari.  In that situation, minimizing the browser window to the Dock did not affect determination of the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Start Camino, view some page on the web, and minimize Camino to the Dock
1. Open Script Editor
2. In an appropriate script window, enter the code: 
tell application "Camino"
  URL of window 0
end tell
3. Click on the 'Run' button in the script window
4. Observe the dialog box reporting the error


Actual Results:  
I get a dialog box with the following sort of content:

AppleScript Error
Camino got an error:
NSReceivedEvaluationScriptError: 3


Expected Results:  
I expected to see no error and an appropriate URL as a string displayed in the bottom-most text view of the script window.

The closest bug I noticed was: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253486 but that didn't seem to be the same.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I can't reproduce this bug with trunk *or* with 1.0.3.

I wonder if this is Intel-only.

cl

Comment 2

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

I can repro this on a 2006100501 trunk, PPC.

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

Confirmed.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

This may well be fallout from the changes smfr made to what's considered a frontmost browser window.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I can't get the command to work at all, even with one non-minimized window :(

Someone should check to see if this worked before December of 2005 and is indeed a regression.

Comment 6

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

It works for me in Camino 1.0.3, but not on trunk. The error for me is "Can't make URL of window 1 into type reference."

Actually, trying to get even a reference to a window doesn't work: "NSReceiversCantHandleCommandScriptError".

Comment 7

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Aha, this is a result of the NSCoreSuite -> ASKApplicationSuite change. It totally broke what limited AppleScript support we have.

Comment 8

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Er, that's what broke it completely; may not be the cause of the summary of this bug(?).

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Comment 6 to comment 8 were due to bug 284554; comment 5 was bug 184449.

Comment 10

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WFM in a recent branch nightly (s/window/browser window/, since windows don't have URLs any more), though index 0 resolving is a bug, bug 395716.