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Re: Programmatically toggle display to white on black
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Re: Programmatically toggle display to white on black


  • Subject: Re: Programmatically toggle display to white on black
  • From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:20:41 -0700

If you are in full-screen mode, can't you control the text colors normally, without resorting to a trick like this? If the app dies unexpectedly while in this mode, most users won't know how to bring things back to normal. And if the user normally runs in white-on- black mode, this will do the opposite of what you want.


On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Philip Dow wrote:

This will be under the control of the user. It is for use in full screen text editing mode under low light conditions.

The trick is as follows:

CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)55, true); // command
CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)58, true); // option
CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)59, true); // ctrl


CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)28, true); // number 8 CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)28, false); CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)59, false); CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)58, false); CGPostKeyboardEvent((CGCharCode)0, (CGKeyCode)55, false);

Apple documentation specifically warns against using this method and instead recommends CGCreateKeyboardEvent. That method crashes every time as I call it so I'm not bothering with it. Applescript was also an option:

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process "MyHappyProcess"
		key code 28 using {command down, option down, control down}
	end tell
end tell

-Phil

On Jun 26, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Scott Thompson wrote:


On Jun 24, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Philip Dow wrote:

Is anyone aware of a way to switch the display into white on black mode then eventually back? This is a feature available via Universal Access that I would like to use programatically.

I've searched through the CGDisplay docs, Quartz stuff, NSScreen, -Display and -ColorSpace but haven't found anything. Cocoadev doesn't seem to have anything on the topic and the Apple lists only produced an unanswered request from 2003.

I'd be fine with sending a command-alt-ctrl-8 keyboard shortcut event to the system, but I don't know how to do this either.

As a general rule, this is something that should be under the control of the user, and the operating system. You might explain a bit more why you want to do this from your application. Are you creating some kind of assistive device?


Scott



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