Compatibility with Alfred 2.7.2 about current active app

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LaunchBar does the same thing.

It used to have application-focus when its window was in focus, but in their infinite wisdom the devs changed that several years ago – and destroyed much functionality (from my point of view).

The old way allowed me to have LaunchBar-specific macros, and it did NOT interfere with my app-specific macros when LaunchBar was in focus.

I’m still chapped about that.

AppleScript and System Events can detect whether Alfred’s window is open or not:

tell application "System Events"
  tell application process "Alfred 2"
    if subrole of windows = {"AXSystemDialog"} then
      beep
    end if
  end tell
end tell

-Chris

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