AppleScript: Toggle Between Safari Windows?

Question

If I have two safari windows open, just one tab in each, how do I get applescript to switch to either of the windows at will? Or in other words, toggle between them.

I tried, activate window 1 (or, the first window), and activate window 2 (or the second window), only ever activates the first window.

I tried open window 1 etc, open doesn't exist.

I tried using the system events, click menu bar 1 option, thinking maybe menu bar 2 was for window 2, didn't work.

I tried making do javascript on a specific tab show that page, couldn't get that to work.

Ultimately I did figure out I could use a keyboard shortcut, but I wanted to see if there was a more 'vanilla' applescript way.

Answer 1

When I do just this

tell application "Safari"
  set index of window 2 to 1
end tell

The new window that shows up is frozen. I fixed this by doing this

    tell application "Safari"
    set theWindows to windows
    set win2 to item 2 of theWindows
    tell win2
        set visible to false
        set visible to true
        set index to 1
    end tell
    activate
end tell

Answer 2

• If the windows are not full screen (in different spaces) just change the index of the window

    tell application "Safari"
        set index of window 2 to 1
    end tell
  

• If the windows are in different spaces you have to switch the spaces by executing the keystrokes with System Events. The default values on the US keyboard are ??

    tell application "System Events"
        key code 123 using (control down)
    end tell
  

  and ??

    tell application "System Events"
        key code 124 using (control down)
    end tell