Front Window Analysis Tool Using AppleScript System Events (List UI Elements)

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Hey Dan,

Interesting thought.

Here's how it looks in Script Debugger.

tell application "System Events"
   tell application process "TextEdit"
      front window
   end tell
end tell

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I'm not going to fiddle with transforming it to XML at the moment, but I have an osax that might make that easy – so I'll think about it.

I'm not aware of any freeware hierarchical viewers for the Mac other than Xcode. I have a great utility called PlistEdit Pro that's much lighter weight than Xcode (but also more expensive).

-Chris