On Jun 8, 2012, at 02:20, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2012, at 7:30 PM, gweston <gwes...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 07, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 07/06/2012, at 9:23 PM, Gregory Weston wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know of existing code or a trivial technique to get a CGPath or 
>>> NSBezierPath that describes the shape of the desktop? I'll write and share 
>>> it if it's not out there, but I'd rather not reinvent any wheels. My 
>>> interests are:
>>> 1. It should be the actual perimeter of the desktop, not just the bounding 
>>> box.
>>> 2. It should be a single polygon, rather than a collection of rectangles.
>>> 3. It should behave properly in the presence of mirrored displays.
>> 
>> 
>> Just iterate over the list of NSScreens and append each screen rect to a 
>> bezier path.
>> 
>> First thing I tried. It fails requirement #2.
> 
> Is Requirement 2 really a requirement? What are you going to be doing with an 
> NSBezierPath path that is going to be improved by making it a single polygon 
> rather than a union of rectangles?

Strictly what I need is the set of individual line segments that define the 
perimeter, but I figured that it anyone had a solution to the problem in 
already it was likely to be giving back a path instead of just a list of points 
and I could parse the path.
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