JavaScript Configs

This page documents the JavaScript config feature of Slate. This feature is available in Slate version 1.0.19 and above.

Appetizer

Normally, the way Slate is configured, a truly dynamic operation is impossible.

For example, lets say I'm a nutjob and I wanted the keystroke ctrl+1 to:

• push the window to the right if the application of the current window is iTerm
• push the window to the left if the application is Google Chrome
• push the window to the top if the application is anything else
• if the window's title is "OMG I WANT TO BE FULLSCREEN" then fullscreen the window regardless of the application.

And again, I want the keystroke ctrl+1 to handle all of this. In the typical Slate config, this is impossible.

Enter JavaScript Configs:

// Create Operations
var pushRight = slate.operation("push", {
  "direction" : "right",
  "style" : "bar-resize:screenSizeX/3"
});
var pushLeft = slate.operation("push", {
  "direction" : "left",
  "style" : "bar-resize:screenSizeX/3"
});
var pushTop = slate.operation("push", {
  "direction" : "top",
  "style" : "bar-resize:screenSizeX/2"
});
var fullscreen = slate.operation("move", {
  "x" : "screenOriginX",
  "y" : "screenOriginY",
  "width" : "screenSizeX",
  "height" : "screenSizeY"
});
// Bind A Crazy Function to 1+ctrl
slate.bind("1:ctrl", function(win) {
  // here win is a reference to the currently focused window
  if (win.title() === "OMG I WANT TO BE FULLSCREEN") {
    win.doOperation(fullscreen);
    return;
  }
  var appName = win.app().name();
  if (appName === "iTerm") {
    win.doOperation(pushRight);
  } else if (appName === "Google Chrome") {
    win.doOperation(pushLeft);
  } else {
    win.doOperation(pushTop);
  }
});

Definitely verbose, but they can do much more than normal configs. Yum.

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