Re: window number accessible through accessibility system
Re: window number accessible through accessibility system
- Subject: Re: window number accessible through accessibility system
- From: "Ian Archer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:30:27 -0400
That's helpful, thank you. I didn't know that the order of the window
list was determined by z-axis order. So the problem is solved for my
purposes.
However, the functionality between NSWindowList and the AX api should
be bridged. NSWindowList does not indicate to which application a
window belongs, and hence there is nothing meaningfully communicated
by a list of window numbers with no tools to extract further
information from these window numbers.
On 5/1/06, Mike Engber <email@hidden> wrote:
The AXWindows attribute of the application gives you the windows in z-
order.
That should be sufficient for your purposes?
-ME
On May 1, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Ian Archer wrote:
> The AppKit function NSWindowList will give a list of window numbers in
> an front-to-back order. This is the only way to globally distinguish
> window depths in a legal (i.e. not through private API) fashion. I'd
> like to use this info to augment the accessibility I am offering but
> the accessibility API doesn't seem to offer such information.
>
> Programmatically, two windows with the same dimensions and location
> will appear identical through the accessibility API. This is not
> sufficient for my needs.
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