Re: Repositioning another app's windows?
Re: Repositioning another app's windows?
- Subject: Re: Repositioning another app's windows?
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
Use Accessibility. There's a utility called Moom that does that. That's the only way an outside app can move some of my windows, because the window positioning code path is convoluted - consider just what's involved in moving a window whose position comes from the OS inside a virtual machine.
Even normal apps may get confused at a move that doesn't come in via expected channels.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Mann" <email@hidden>
To: "Cocoa-Dev List" <email@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:50:00 PM
Subject: Repositioning another app's windows?
Hi. I frequently add and remove external monitors from my laptop. Each time I do this, the windows all get rearranged.
I wonder if it's not possible to write an agent that listens for screen geometry changes, and repositions app windows in the right place each time a monitor is added or removed.
If this utility already exists, I'd love to hear about it. If not, is there a reliable way to get at all the windows currently instantiated, and determine which they are? I've looked briefly at the accessibility APIs, and that might do the trick. But I wonder if there's not another way I should consider.
I know I can listen for screen geometry changes, I've done it before (gonna have to dig up that code).
Thanks!
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Rick
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