Re: getting details of other application windows...
Re: getting details of other application windows...
- Subject: Re: getting details of other application windows...
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 05:42:55 -0400
on 03-09-15 9:24 PM, M. Uli Kusterer at email@hidden wrote:
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At 17:49 Uhr -0700 15.09.2003, Michael Dautermann wrote:
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> Am I merely using the wrong attribute? or is Accessibility disabled
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> (or turned off) by default?
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Yes, it's off by default. After all, it would be a security problem
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if every application was able to just look at another app's windows.
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Not that this would have stopped the Adress Book folks from leaving
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their barn doors wide open, but at least you can usually choose
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whether to put anything important in the address book.
You turn on accessibility in the Universal Access pane of System
Preferences. It's near the bottom of the "Seeing" pane. Check the "Enable
access for assistive devices" setting.
This cannot be turned on automatically, via script or otherwise. What
QuicKeys and my PreFab UI Browser do is to test at application launch time
whether it is turned on (there is an Accessibility API function for this),
then put up an alert telling the user to turn it on and offering to open
System Preferences to the correct pane for the user.
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