Re: Getting other application's window/document name
Re: Getting other application's window/document name
- Subject: Re: Getting other application's window/document name
- From: John Ku <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:43:16 -0700
Fantastic, this is exactly what Im looking for. Time to dive into C!
Thanks!!
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On May 21, 2009, at 12:59 AM, John Ku wrote:
>
> What should I look into if I need to grab the document/window name from
>> other running applications? Currently I have the following to get a list
>> of
>> available running applications:
>> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchedApplication]
>>
>> How do I go about getting the document/window name from other
>> applications?
>>
>
> On Leopard and later, you may be able to do this with the CGWindow API
> (CGWindow.h). Something like this:
>
> - use CGWindowListCreate to get a list of all windows
> - for each window in the list, use CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo to get info
> about the window
> - from each window's info, get the kCGWindowOwnerPID entry so you can sort
> windows by pid
> - from each window's info, get the kCGWindowName entry so you can identify
> the window name
>
> -eric
>
>
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