> >>> 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 a
>>> 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?
Th
On 24/09/2009, at 4:26 AM, Hippo Man wrote:
But how does Spaces do it? Is it via an internal, private API that
people like us don't have access to?
Yep. There are many of these - probably more than there are public
ones. Get used to it!
--Graham
Randall Meadows wrote:
On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Hippo Man wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27, Jesper Storm Bache
wrote:
There is very little external control over Spaces.
Be sure to file enhancement request radars.
One related question: I'm new to the Apple development world, and I
wa
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27, Jesper Storm Bache wrote:
> There is very little external control over Spaces.
> Be sure to file enhancement request radars.
One related question: I'm new to the Apple development world, and I
want to make sure that I know the right place to file such an
enhancement
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 14:44, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> This issue has come up a few times recently: "I want to do X on my own
> computer! I should be able to do it!"
I'm not trying to assert that I _should_ be able to anything. Please
re-read my messages here, so you can disabuse yourself of that
m
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Hippo Man wrote:
> Understood. But I'm wanting to write my _own_ app to control window
> placement within Spaces on my _own_ computer. I want to automate this
> instead of having to do a lot of mouse clicking and dragging.
This issue has come up a few times recen
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27, Jesper Storm Bache wrote:
> So far we have the following:
> [ ... etc. ... ]
>
> For example, to determine whether or not a (candidate) window is on
> the active Space on 10.5, I ended up doing:
> [ ... etc. ... ]
>
> Obviously this is not desirable code, but this is
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:19, Eric Schlegel 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
> CGWindowListCreateDescriptionF
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:46, Jeremy Pereira wrote:
> Speaking as a user of Mac OS X, I am relieved about this. Spaces is a
> feature that is designed to allow the user to manage the way his/her apps
> appear. Applications which interfere with the user's preferences (e.g. by
> changing the spac
On 22 Sep 2009, at 17:19, Eric Schlegel wrote:
Secondly, is there any way in any of those environments to
programmatically switch Spaces? For example, if Space 3 happens to be
visible, is there any Cocoa code I can run which will switch the
visibility to, say, Space 2?
No, there is no API (in
There is very little external control over Spaces.
Be sure to file enhancement request radars.
So far we have the following:
1) In 10.6 you can ask a window whether or not it is on the active
Space ( [NSWindow isOnActiveSpace])
2) CGWindow.h allows you to query for the space id
(kCGWindowWorks
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? In other words, if I have six Spaces defined
and Space 3 happens to be the one which is currently visible on my
screen, how can I make some sort of Cocoa
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