Fantastic, this is exactly what Im looking for. Time to dive into C! Thanks!!
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Eric Schlegel <eri...@apple.com> wrote: > > On May 21, 2009, at 12:59 AM, John Ku wrote: > > What should I look into if I need to grab the document/window name from >> other running applications? Currently I have the following to get a list >> of >> available running applications: >> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchedApplication] >> >> How do I go about getting the document/window name from other >> applications? >> > > On Leopard and later, you may be able to do this with the CGWindow API > (CGWindow.h). Something like this: > > - use CGWindowListCreate to get a list of all windows > - for each window in the list, use CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo to get info > about the window > - from each window's info, get the kCGWindowOwnerPID entry so you can sort > windows by pid > - from each window's info, get the kCGWindowName entry so you can identify > the window name > > -eric > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
