Send the front most window to back? bring the back to front?

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I think it is confusing to provide such detail for things that don't work.

####So, let me see if I now have it straight about what CAN be done:

  • The only change in the stack of windows that can be made, is to make a selected window as frontmost.
  • You could do this by telling AppleScript to set the index of a window to 1
  • When you move a window to the front, all of the other windows remain in the order that they were.

####However, with a simple AppleScript, we CAN move the first window to the back

--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--	MOVE FIRST WINDOW TO BACK
--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

tell application "TextWrangler"
	set winList to every window
	set indexList to index of every window
	set nameList to name of every window
	
	log nameList
	log indexList
	
	--- It appears that the GET of every window always gets in
	--- the current stack order
	
	--- MOVE CURRENT WINDOW 1 TO BACK ---
	--    Set each window index to 1 in reverse order
	--    except for current window 1
	
	repeat with oWin in (items 1 through -2 of reverse of winList)
		log (name of oWin)
		set index of oWin to 1
	end repeat
	
end tell
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