Re: Bring Window to Front
Re: Bring Window to Front
- Subject: Re: Bring Window to Front
- From: Jamie Frater <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:29:15 +0100
Hiya,
Thanks to you and to Mike who both suggested Applescript or the
Accessibility API. I have contacted the authors of parallels to see
if either options are possible.
The application I am writing allows users to put an xml file (plist)
into a shared network directory which my app reads and outputs any
one or all of the following:
1) growl notification (clickable and can launch any specified app -
with or without password protection for security over the network)
2) sound notification (can play any sound on the Mac)
3) read text with any specified voice and any specified text
I already have the app working with directory change notifications
(using KQueue), and all of the above options. The main reason for
writing it was so that I could monitor notifications coming from some
Windows apps I run for work on my parallels desktop and my Windows
laptop in another room. Through some other small Windows apps I have
written it is also notifying me of Windows shutdowns and logins.
Do you think that many people would consider this to be a useful app
- making it worth selling on the net, or do you think I should keep
it for a personal app and think of other ideas for commercial apps in
the future? I am hoping to eventually replace all of my Windows
development with Apple dev so I can drop Windows entirely.
At the moment I haven't come up with any ideas as amazing as things
like Delicious Library that are good enough to provide me with a
living - but I am hoping I eventually will.
Again, thanks for the help,
Jamie
On 1 Oct 2006, at 19:21, John Stiles wrote:
On the Mac, you don't have access to the windows and other controls
of separate processes. All that information is kept in a separate
process space. Also, since there are multiple, disparate frameworks
on the Mac (Carbon and Cocoa), even if you had access to the
pointer, you'd need to know if it was an NSWindow or a Carbon
WindowRef.
Your best options are the Accessibility API, or potentially
AppleScript if the target app supports it.
Good luck!
Jamie Frater wrote:
Hi all,
I am very new to Cocoa, Objective-C, and Macs in general but I am
hoping to eventually drop all Windows programming in favour of
Apple (I am a Windows develop by trade).
I am working on my first real Cocoa app and I have a query:
How do I force a window to restore from the dock? I have done
some research and found the function to restore a window with the
genie effect, but the problem is that the window I want to restore
belongs to another program. I want to find the appropriate window
for this program and force it to the front in a restored state.
The program is Paralells desktop (though I am sure that makes no
difference).
Does anyone know how I might do this? In Windows I can use
FindWindow with a classname to get the handle of the foreign
window and use that. It appears that Carbon has a findWindow and
a FindWindowOfClass, but I am not sure if they are what I need.
thanks,
Jamie Frater
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