Repositioning another app's windows?

2012-07-28 Thread Rick Mann
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

Re: Repositioning another app's windows?

2012-07-28 Thread Lee Ann Rucker
virtual machine. Even normal apps may get confused at a move that doesn't come in via expected channels. - Original Message - From: "Rick Mann" To: "Cocoa-Dev List" Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:50:00 PM Subject: Repositioning another app's windows? Hi.

Re: Repositioning another app's windows?

2012-07-31 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2012 Jul 28, at 21:48, Lee Ann Rucker wrote: > Use Accessibility. There's a utility called Moom that does that. or AppleScript; moving windows is in the Standard Suite, so I think any app which announces itself as scriptable can have its windows moved. Neither way is 100% reliable. Access

Re: Repositioning another app's windows?

2012-07-31 Thread Charles Srstka
On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Neither way is 100% reliable. Accessibility probably requires that "Enable > Access for assistive devices" be on in System Preferences. I don't see why > we have that stupid checkbox. At least, in 10.8 it's on by default in a new > accoun

Re: Repositioning another app's windows?

2012-08-01 Thread Rainer Brockerhoff
On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:38 , cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:07:15 -0500 > From: Charles Srstka > Message-ID: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > >> Neither way is 100% reliable. Accessibility probably requires that "Enable >> Access f