Re: Calling methods on other applications?

FROM : Ken Tozier
DATE : Sun Apr 03 11:04:07 2005

You might be able to do this with an AppleScript. You can ask the 
finder for a list of application processes which you could then loop 
through, sending a request for a list of documents. Once you have the 
list of documents, you could use a try block to resize them. This would 
most likely require a bit of trial and error to get the syntax right, 
but the end result would be a legal, non-hackey way to accomplish what 
you're trying to do.


On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:18 AM, Conrad Carlen wrote:

>
> On Apr 2, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>

>> On Apr 2, 2005 11:55 PM, Benjamin Blonder <<email_removed>> wrote:
>> Ideally I'd like to be able to somehow
>> convert the PIDs it returns into actual NSApplication pointers I could
>> then use to call the relevant resize methods. Right now though I'm
>> stumped as to how to do this. It seems like it ought to be possible -
>> any ideas?
>>
>>  What makes you think it ought to be possible? It isn't.
>>  There is no supported way to accomplish what you are trying to do. 
>> Your best bet is the unsupported hacks like APE or SIMBL.

>
> Benjamin,
>
> For Cocoa, see NSObject's poseAsClass:(Class)aClass.
>
> poseAsClass is part of NSObject, is not deprecated, and thus not a 
> "hack." What you do with it, to somebody else's app, may be another 
> story. The bad part about poseAsClass is that there isn't a good way 
> that I know of to use it in the context of somebody else's app. Input 
> Managers have been used but that seems likely to break in the future 
> if Input Manager modules are executed later than launch time - when it 
> becomes too late to pose. Depending on how you use poseAsClass, 
> particularly if you can find a way to use it without the Input 
> Manager, it's not altogether evil - you'll probably have to revise 
> your code whenever the app you're posing in changes, though.
>
> -Conrad
>

>>
>>   -- Finlay
>>   
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