mac-focus-window

Focus a window and bring it to the front on macOS

Requires accessibility permissions.

Requires macOS 10.12 or later. macOS 10.13 or earlier needs to download the Swift runtime support libraries.

Install

$ npm install mac-focus-window

Usage

const focusWindow = require('mac-focus-window');

if (focusWindow.isSupported && focusWindow.hasPermissions()) {
  focusWindow(12345);

  // true
} else {
  focusWindow.requestPermissions();
}

API

focusWindow(windowNumber: number | string): Boolean

Focus the given window and bring it to the front.

An error will be thrown if:

• Accessibility permissions are not enabled for the current app
• You provide windowNumber as a string, but it's not a number
• There is no window with the given number

Returns true if the window was focused successfully, and false otherwise.

focusWindow.isSupported

Will be true if the module is supported (based on macOS version).

focusWindow.hasPermissions(): Boolean

Check if the current app has accessibility permissions. This will not prompt the user with the system dialog.

Returns true if the app has permissions, and false otherwise.

focusWindow.checkPermissions(): Boolean

Same as hasPermissions, but it will present the user with the native permissions dialog.

Notes:

• The permissions dialog will only be shown if the app doesn't have permissions
• The user has to go into the System Preferences to give access, so if the app doesn't have permissions, this will return false immediately after presenting the dialog. You have to check again after the user has granted the permissions for this to be true (restart of the app not required)

Related

• mac-window-select - Prompt the user to select a window on macOS, mimicking the native screenshot utility
• mac-windows - Provide Information about Application Windows running

License

MIT