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Re: Can you get a global Window or Application List?
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Re: Can you get a global Window or Application List?


  • Subject: Re: Can you get a global Window or Application List?
  • From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:38:03 +0000

On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 05:38 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:

Corey Nelson (CN) wrote at Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:32:50 -0700:
CN> Does anyone know of a way to get a global Window or Application list? The
CN> designers of Cocoa seem to have made sure this is impossible for fear of
CN> it being abused. Carbon used to have this ability but the functions that
CN> made it possible seem to have been deprecated or handicapped under OS X.
CN> : (

If I understand you correctly, you seem forgetting that applications are
separated processes now ;)

Except that it is possible, you just need the correct rights with the windowserver to do this type of thing, and Apple doesn't want to open up the CGS API :-)

-- Finlay
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