Re: list open application windows
Re: list open application windows
- Subject: Re: list open application windows
- From: "Henry McGilton (Starbase)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 19:48:39 -0700
On May 12, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 12 May '08, at 8:15 PM, Ben Lowndes 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...)
I have a couple of screen measurement tools for which I could
have used those APIs had I ever been able to make any sense
of them. For instance, in the GuideLines app, I would like
to be able to query the top-most window under the cursor for
its content view and sub-views so as to align the guides to
a document's borders.
And, yes, perusing a bunch of 'private' APIs a couple of years
ago, I wondered about the potential for malicious or mischievous
apps. The CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo mentioned later sounds
like what I could use, and it's read-only . . .
Cheers,
........ Henry
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Henry McGilton, Boulevardier | Trilithon Software
Objective-C/Java Composer | Seroia Research
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