Re: list open application windows

FROM : John Clayton
DATE : Tue May 13 17:22:01 2008

Hi Ben,

Take a look at the new Leopard only CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo 
method.  Its probably what you are looking for and is able to provide 
a list of windows in z-order, including rect position (screen relative 
of course), pid, title etc.  You cant modify windows using this API, 
but you'll be able to query them at least.

Enjoy.

--
John Clayton
http://www.coderage-software.com/


On May 13, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Ben Lowndes wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jens Alfke <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:

>>

>>> I'm a cocoa newbie, so I may be missing something obvious here: I'd
>>> like to get a list of open windows for all currently running
>>> applications.
>>>

>>
>> Nothing personal, but people seem to ask this question here about 
>> once a
>> week ... and I just have to ask "why"? What kind of application are 
>> you
>> working on? I can't think of a compelling usage for this, other 
>> than writing
>> some kind of window-management utility (or malware...)

>
> Yes, exactly: I'm working on a window management utility (or I'm 
> trying to...).
>

>> And BTW, if you search the list archives you'll find easily 100 
>> messages on
>> this exact topic just in the past two or three months.

>
> Being new to Cocoa, at first it's difficult to phrase the question
> correctly when searching for the answer; so for the benefit of future
> searchers the solution seems to lie in using the accessability API or
> an input manager. Is that correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
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