[BrandonCorbin]

Im looking for a way to place an element at the bottom of the screen, and tell the windowServer to now show that x pixels at the bottom of the screen are no longer available... Im sure this is going to be a totally NON SUPPORTED, non documented way.. But im wondering if anyone has done anything like this yet?

Thanks

Brandon Corbin

[djohnson]

It would completely non supported or documented. All of the NSScreen functions return information. Have you checked in Carbon to see if this is possible?

[BrandonCorbin]

Have you?

Did you find anything good?

[djohnson]

Nope, nothing... I do think that it is possible, it better be Might have to find someone that works at Apple to figure it out though... I will check in the carbon files and see if I can find anything.

[BrandonCorbin]

Getting someone at apple would be quite helpful!

Any takers on this one?

[djohnson]

The more I think about it, it seems like it might be to low level for OS X... I think the OS is going to be the only one that can access the CoreGraphics stuff that will control the screen size. It might still be possible though...

[Rickster]

Probably the most surefire way to accomplish this (though still terribly hackish and unsupported) would be to patch -[NSScreen visibleFrame] so that it returns something different... say, by using Unsanity's Application Enhancer tools. Of course, that would only have an effect on Cocoa applications... do do it for Carbon apps too, you'd need to find out what the equivalent function is for them, and patch it as well.