Is it possible to get the path to the current *file* (not app)?

[NL33]

Thanks for this cool tool!

Right now, it seems like active-win returns the path to the app behind the currently active window. That's not surprising, as the ReadMe says as much. But is it possible to get the path to the file that is in the active window?

For example, if the current window is a microsoft word file titled "great-document" saved to my desktop, running console.log(await activeWindow()) returns:

{
  memoryUsage: ...,
  title: 'great-document',
  bounds: ...,
  owner: {
    name: 'Microsoft Word',
    processId: ...,
    path: '/Applications/Microsoft Word.app',
    bundleId: 'com.microsoft.Word'
  },
  id: ...,
  platform: 'macos'
}

The path that is listed here is the path to Microsoft Word, the app, itself.

I'm hoping to find the path to the file itself, which in this case would be:
Users/NL33/desktop/great-document.doc

Is there a way to use active-win to do that? Is it possible in general?

[sindresorhus]

It is possible to get it on macOS using AppleScript. We could support it here if anyone does a good pull request. For Windows and Linux, I have no idea.

The property should be called filePath and should be top-level, not in owner.

https://superuser.com/questions/295963/get-path-of-open-file-in-any-application-on-mac-os-x

[NL33]

Ok. Thanks for the info.