Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-22 Thread Hippo Man
I'm fairly new to the Cocoa world and completely new to this mailing list. I hope that I'm posting this question to the correct forum. If not, I'd be grateful for a pointer to a more appropriate place to repost this. Before coming here, I tried to locate the answer I'm looking for on the net. I co

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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 (C

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
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,

Re: Controlling Spaces and retrieving information about the current Space?

2009-09-23 Thread Hippo Man
at least do that via Apple Events in a sort-of hacky way: in the Spaces Preference Pane, I can map keystrokes to the "Switch Directly Into a Space" events, and then I can use Apple Events in my application to send these keystrokes. None of this is ideal, of course, but it

Can an app query the values in its own Info.plist?

2009-09-27 Thread Hippo Man
Is there a way for me to put my own, custom key into a Cocoa application's Info.plist and have the application query that key's setting? I know that I can use the dictionaryWithContentsOfFile: method of an NSDictionary to read an arbitrary, dictionary-like property list, given its pathname. Howeve

Re: Can an app query the values in its own Info.plist?

2009-09-27 Thread Hippo Man
> Duh. Not sure what I was thinking. Sorry, Hippo Man. Thanks for the > heads up, Graham and Kyle. > > Kiel Well, many thanks and much appreciation to all of you. This is exactly the information I was looking for, and it's good to know that there's a consensus that I _can_