I have recently ungraded to El Capitan, and the Finder's idea of what the size and position of a new window should be is driving me nuts.
So, I want to write an applescript which will conserve the window's left coordinate, set the top to as high as possible, and set the width and height to certain values.
I can get the bounds:
tell application "Finder"
set theBounds to bounds of front window
end tell
But if I ask for left of theBounds I get an error.
Surely Applescript provides a way to unpack a bounds?
The bounds property returns type rectangle. This is just a list of four integer values that stands for x/y coordinates of the upper left point and x/y coordinates of the bottom right point. Maybe this little script makes it clearer:
tell application "Finder"
set {x1, y1, x2, y2} to bounds of front window
set {winWidth, winHeight} to {x2 - x1, y2 - y1}
end tell
You can set coordinates the same way. Define the upper left point's x and y and add your target width to x1 and the target height to y1 to get the third and fourth value.
Have a nice day, Michael / Hamburg