Re: Getting n-th window of an application ?
Re: Getting n-th window of an application ?
- Subject: Re: Getting n-th window of an application ?
- From: "John O. Louch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:27:42 -0800
Yep I meant AXWindows. It appears that Carbon apps are in Z-order and that
Cocoa apps are not. I believe they will be same in the next software
update.
Thanks,
jl
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on 03-01-21 4:06 AM, Jirome Foucher at email@hidden wrote:
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> On lundi, jan 20, 2003, at 17:30 Europe/Paris, John O. Louch wrote:
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>> In 10.2.3 the AXWindow attributes of the Application has the windows
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>> sorted
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>> in Z order. Where the first item in the list is the topmost window.
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> Sorry John, but I'm running 10.2.3 right now, and the CFArray I get
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> using the following call :
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> error = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(accessEltRef,
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> kAXWindowsAttribute, &windowsArray);
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> is definitely not sorted in Z order. It is sorted by creation date.
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Same here, and it's of course persistent. I suspect John meant 10.3, which
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is presumably being used internally at Apple these days. (I assume he also
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meant "AXWindows attribute", not "AXWindow attributes".)
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Question: If the ordering of the application's AXWindows attribute will be
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their Z order, will it change as the ordering of windows changes in the
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target application? This would be necessary to make Apple's new GUI
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Scripting technology consistent with conventional AppleScript usage. I
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suspect it is the AppleScript issue that is driving this change to Z order.
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