Ignore Hotkey if Spotlight Search Active

[martin]

It's amazing that it could detect the Spotlight search window.

How about "Alfred"?
I changed Spotlight into Alfred and it does not work.

Edit: Turns out I made a mistake. There were two places to change and I changed only one place. It's working great now!

From this post, an answer provided by Chris as well.

Compatibility with Alfred 2.7.2 about current active app

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 "Sy…

Code for Alfred:

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process "Alfred"
		if (get name of windows) contains "Alfred" then
			return true
		else
			return false
		end if
	end tell
end tell