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Re: Get the window at a certain point
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Re: Get the window at a certain point

  • Subject: Re: Get the window at a certain point
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:27:20 +0100
At 13:39 Uhr -0500 12.11.2004, Tim Conkling wrote:
Thanks to both people who sent me code to do this. However, it seems that these solutions won't work if another app's window is covering the window of mine that's located at the particular point, right?

It will work. It will simply give you one of your app's windows, ignoring any other apps' windows that may be there.

Neither Carbon nor Cocoa let you get at the global window list (what used to be LMGetWindowList() or whatever in Classic).

Letting apps get at other apps' windows is a security risk. If you need that, you'd either need to find some undocumented CG Window Server APIs, or you'd need to use a haxie, or you could require the user to turn on Accessibility, which contains a global FindWindow-like call.
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 >Re: Get the window at a certain point (From: Tim Conkling <email@hidden>)

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