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Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa
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Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa


  • Subject: Re: Traversing windows with Cocoa
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:16:44 -0800


On 3 Mar '08, at 1:10 PM, aldo kurnia wrote:

Given a window's TITLE, how do you create a reference to it, determine what kind of application the window is (the name of the application/executable)? and how do you move that window to the front?

Applications run in protected memory spaces. There's no way to get direct access to windows of other processes. (This is a Good Thing for system security.)


Applescript is also not very useful since the application I'm trying to support doesn't support some of the basic window scripts.

The UI scripting support might help; its AppleScript commands end up generating fake UI events in the target app, so you can manipulate even apps that aren't scriptable. I don't know how to use that stuff, though. Check the docs.


—Jens

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