Re: getting the key window from another application
Re: getting the key window from another application
- Subject: Re: getting the key window from another application
- From: Keith Alperin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 23:00:22 -0500
Ondra, thank you for your response!
I'm trying to interact with the first responder programatically. I'm
most interested in manipulating text in in the focused text field,
but there may be other cases where i will want to do something to
whatever control is in focus.
I hope that this is clear enough.
Thanks again,
Keith
On May 5, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
Keith,
On 6.5.2005, at 3:41, Keith Alperin wrote:
Howdy. I'm trying to determine what the key window is from within
a background process. I've looked into [[NSWorkspace
sharedWorkspace] activeApplication], but that only gives me the
process id. I've been unable to figure out how to get an
NSApplication from the process id which would in turn enable me to
get the key window. I found some posts about this in the
cocoabuilder archives, but no definitive answers.
That's since there is no definitive answer at all :)
What do you need this for? That's the question.
Your best bet probably is AppleScript: nearly all Cocoa
applications conform to it quite well, and a considerable number of
other ones do, too. What you probably want is something roughly like
NSString *ass=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"tell application \"%@
\"\nget name of front document\nend tell",path];
NSDictionary *err=nil;
NSAppleEventDescriptor *ad=[[[[NSAppleScript alloc]
initWithSource:ass] autorelease] executeAndReturnError:&err];
if (ad) NSLog(@"path ok: (%@)",[ad stringValue]);
else NSLog(@"path err %@",[err
objectForKey:@"NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage"]);
There are other ways, but -- at least without knowing your real
goal -- they do not seem to fit too well.
Note: far as I can say, there is absolutely no way which would work
always, with any application, without an exception. Far as I know,
what you can get is a near-to-perfect solution, but not a perfect one.
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