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10.4: QuickTime Player fullscreen for free

Posted by dom on Tue May 03 17:33:30 +0200 2005

Just being inspired by macosxhints, I tried the following AppleScript:

tell application "QuickTime Player"
present front movie
end tell

Now put it in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Quicktime Player/Present.scpt. Enable the Script Menu via /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility.app, and off you go. You now may present any movie openend in QuickTime. Long live the AppleScript!

7 responses to '10.4: QuickTime Player fullscreen for free'

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  1. Hilarious! :-)

    Tue May 03 17:53:44 +0200 2005 - Martin Ott, 20 minutes later

  2. Or how about…

    alias fullscreen osascript -e \’tell application \”QuickTime Player\” to present front movie\’

    Tue May 03 19:42:01 +0200 2005 - alf, about 2 hours later

  3. Though if I’d read the comments on macosxhints that would have been obvious :-\

    Tue May 03 19:43:33 +0200 2005 - alf, about 2 hours later

  4. At the time i wrote this there were no comments at macosxhints :-)

    Tue May 03 20:39:28 +0200 2005 - Dominik Wagner, about 3 hours later

  5. I guess I should up the ante and make it a Finder plugin for Automator then.

    Tue May 03 22:15:32 +0200 2005 - alf, about 5 hours later

  6. for anyone curious if this tip works for Panther – it works great on 10.3.9!

    thanks, alf, for the cmdline version – kinda neat!

    the example above makes an application specific script show up at the bottom of my global script menu.

    Does anyone know how to enable the application specific script menu in QuickTime Player? In Mail.app it shows up to the left of the Help menu for example.

    Sun Oct 16 16:30:08 +0200 2005 - chinarut, 165 days later

  7. configuring a new user and noticing that on 10.3.9, you enable the Script menu using “/Applications/Applescript/Install Script Menu.app“

    Applescript Utility.app exists on 10.4.x (and above I presume)

    Wed Dec 20 02:47:17 +0100 2006 - chinarut, 595 days later
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