Re: list open application windows
Re: list open application windows
- Subject: Re: list open application windows
- From: "Ben Lowndes" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:33 +1000
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm a cocoa newbie, so I may be missing something obvious here: I'd
> > like to get a list of open windows for all currently running
> > applications.
> >
>
> Nothing personal, but people seem to ask this question here about once a
> week ... and I just have to ask "why"? What kind of application are you
> working on? I can't think of a compelling usage for this, other than writing
> some kind of window-management utility (or malware...)
Yes, exactly: I'm working on a window management utility (or I'm trying to...).
> And BTW, if you search the list archives you'll find easily 100 messages on
> this exact topic just in the past two or three months.
Being new to Cocoa, at first it's difficult to phrase the question
correctly when searching for the answer; so for the benefit of future
searchers the solution seems to lie in using the accessability API or
an input manager. Is that correct?
Thanks,
Ben
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