Whatever you do to an app that isn't yours:
use the APIs supplied for Interapplication Communication, as there are (among others):
AppleEvents, AppleScript, Accessibility...

These ensure sufficient isolation between the objects involved, and they are (to a certain extend) likely to survive the next OS version. These APIs DO give you objects you're allowed to message, and they implement messages you're allowed to send to these objects.

Look at this simple AppleScript:

tell application "System Preferences"
        set bounds of window 1 to {342, 125, 937, 585}
end tell

It's very easy to send this via NSAppleScript. So what makes you look for dirty hacks?

Peter

Am 07.01.2011 um 19:51 schrieb Kyle Sluder:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:42 AM, eveningnick eveningnick
<eveningn...@gmail.com> wrote:
Kyle,
thanks for the warning, i understand the problems it may cause.
but what if i was doing that, how should have i sent a message to an
object of the host application?

Quite simple: you don't. Ever. If your host object doesn't explicitly
give you an object you're allowed to message, you don't message any of
its objects.

--Kyle Sluder

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