How to find out information about all opened windows on the desktop.

pirw

Hi!

I want to find out the the size and position of all opened windows on the desktop.

The only thing I've found is that NSAccibility has a function that is named
accessibilityHitTest. It returns the deepest descendant of the accessibility hierarchy that contains the point point, which is in lower-left relative screen coordinates.

I hope there is some other way to find all visible windows on the desktop, since I do not want to search every single pixel on the desktop with this method. It would take too long time.

I hope someone have some kinds of tips where to look.
thx
pir

Kaveman

Nope. Each App on OSX is very separate and its very difficult for one App to reach out and query every other App.

If you are only interested in a single other App you can use Scripting Bridge, or Accessibly Kit.

Sorry OSX is designed to not allow this.

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