Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?
Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?
- Subject: Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?
- From: Hippo Man <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:26:48 -0400
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:19, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Hippo Man wrote:
>
>> Is there a way in Cocoa to programmatically query which Space the user
>> is currently looking at? [ ... ]
>
> You could use the (CoreGraphics, not Cocoa) API
> CGWindowListCreateDescriptionFromArray to get a window description
> dictionary for a window, and then look at the WorkspaceID data in that
> dictionary. There is no defined mapping from WorkspaceID to a particular
> space, however.
Thank you.
>> Secondly, is there any way in any of those environments to
>> programmatically switch Spaces? [ ... ]
>
> No, there is no API (in Cocoa or otherwise) to control the active space.
But how does Spaces do it? Is it via an internal, private API that
people like us don't have access to?
--
HippoMan <email@hidden>
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