[BrandonCorbin]

Alright, we all know that the Dock has the magical power to broadcast (or however) to windows that they should not go past X or Y when Zoomed. Now does anyone have any idea how this actually happens... I have played around with the CGSPrivate.h and CGSWindow.h and they are so helpful... Now playing around with the reports feature of PathFinder I got the following lists of methods that the Dock Uses... Does this help anyone understand how its done?

If it doesn't, thats ok, hope someone gets anything from this.

U _CGSAddTrackingRect
U _CGSArrayCount
U _CGSCStringValue
U _CGSClearWindowListTags
U _CGSClearWindowTags
U _CGSCoalesceEventsInMask
U _CGSCreateBoolean
U _CGSCreateCString
U _CGSCurrentInputPointerPosition
U _CGSDisableDisableUpdate
U _CGSDisableUpdate
U _CGSDisplayStatusQuery
U _CGSEnableAutoReleaseOnEvents
U _CGSEventIsAppUnresponsive
U _CGSEventSetAppIsUnresponsiveNotificationTimeout
U _CGSExtractEventRecordsFromMessage
U _CGSForceShowCursor
U _CGSGetActiveDisplayList
U _CGSGetClientWindowCount
U _CGSGetClientWindowList
U _CGSGetCoalesceEventsMask
U _CGSGetConnectionIDForPSN
U _CGSGetCurrentCursorLocation
U _CGSGetCurrentMouseButtonState
U _CGSGetDebugOptions
U _CGSGetDisplayBounds
U _CGSGetDisplayDepth
U _CGSGetDisplaysWithPoint
U _CGSGetEventPort
U _CGSGetIntegerAtIndex
U _CGSGetNextEventRecord
U _CGSGetScreenRectForWindow
U _CGSGetSystemBackgroundWindow
U _CGSGetWindowAlpha
U _CGSGetWindowBounds
U _CGSGetWindowDepth
U _CGSGetWindowFlushSeed
U _CGSGetWindowGeometry
U _CGSGetWindowLevel
U _CGSGetWindowListWithTags
U _CGSGetWindowProperty
U _CGSGetWindowTags
U _CGSGetWorkspace
U _CGSGetWorkspaceWindowCount
U _CGSGetWorkspaceWindowList
U _CGSInputButtonState
U _CGSInputModifierKeyState
U _CGSIntegerValue
U _CGSLockWindowBits
U _CGSLockWindowRectBits
U _CGSMoveWindow
U _CGSNewConnection
U _CGSNewEmptyRegion
U _CGSNewRegionWithRect
U _CGSNewWindowWithOpaqueShape
U _CGSOrderMenuBarWindow
U _CGSOrderWindow
U _CGSOrderWindowList
U _CGSPingConnection
U _CGSPointInRegion
U _CGSPostBroadcastNotification
U _CGSReenableDisableUpdate
U _CGSReenableUpdate
U _CGSRegisterConnectionNotifyProc
U _CGSRegisterCursorWithData
U _CGSReleaseConnection
U _CGSReleaseObj
U _CGSReleaseRegion
U _CGSReleaseWindow
U _CGSReleaseWindowList
U _CGSSetBackgroundEventMask
U _CGSSetBackgroundEventMaskAndShape
U _CGSSetConnectionProperty
U _CGSSetDebugOptions
U _CGSSetDockRect
U _CGSSetEventCapture
U _CGSSetHotKeyEnabled
U _CGSSetOtherUniversalConnection
U _CGSSetRegisteredCursor
U _CGSSetSharedWindowState
U _CGSSetSymbolicHotKey
U _CGSSetSymbolicHotKeyWithExclusion
U _CGSSetSystemDefinedCursor
U _CGSSetUniversalOwner
U _CGSSetWindowAlpha
U _CGSSetWindowClipShape
U _CGSSetWindowDepth
U _CGSSetWindowLevel
U _CGSSetWindowListAlpha
U _CGSSetWindowListSystemAlpha
U _CGSSetWindowListTags
U _CGSSetWindowOpacity
U _CGSSetWindowShadowAndRimParameters
U _CGSSetWindowShadowParameters
U _CGSSetWindowShapeWithWeighting
U _CGSSetWindowTags
U _CGSSetWindowTransform
U _CGSSetWindowTransforms
U _CGSSetWindowType
U _CGSSetWindowWarp
U _CGSUnionRegionWithRect
U _CGSUniqueCString
U _CGSUnlockWindowBits
U _CGSUnlockWindowRectBits
U _CGSizeEqualToSize
U _CGSizeZero
U _CGStyleCreateWithDictionary

[Chuckit]

Erm...I imagine anybody with knowledge of how the Dock works would know how to use nm themselves. I've always assumed it was CGSSetDockRect.

[djohnson]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Erm...I imagine anybody with knowledge of how the Dock works would know how to use nm themselves. I've always assumed it was CGSSetDockRect.

What do you mean by nm?

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by djohnson:
What do you mean by nm?

I mean nm. It's a tool that displays the symbol table for a program or library. The list he gave is pretty much identical to what you'd get if you typed nm Dock | grep CGS inside the Dock's bundle.

[BrandonCorbin]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Erm...I imagine anybody with knowledge of how the Dock works would know how to use nm themselves. I've always assumed it was CGSSetDockRect.

So you think CGSSetDockRect is the thing to use? Thanks chuck.

[Angus_D]

You probably won't be able to use CGSSetDockRect without a privileged CGSConnection (i.e. the Dock's).

[BrandonCorbin]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
You probably won't be able to use CGSSetDockRect without a privileged CGSConnection (i.e. the Dock's).

Ok, so what kind of magic has to happen to get said privileges, Im not looking for code here, just suggestion on where to start looking...

[Chuckit]

Originally posted by BrandonCorbin:
Ok, so what kind of magic has to happen to get said privileges, Im not looking for code here, just suggestion on where to start looking...

I really don't know why you'd want to lie to applications about where the Dock is, but I think there are relevant functions in the CGSPrivate.h that's floating around.

[BrandonCorbin]

Thanks for your tip...

Brandon

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by BrandonCorbin:
Ok, so what kind of magic has to happen to get said privileges, Im not looking for code here, just suggestion on where to start looking...

APE to load yourself as a bundle inside the Dock...

[BrandonCorbin]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
APE to load yourself as a bundle inside the Dock...

Good idea... Since our developer has gotten the CGSPrivate.h to work we could go that way, but coudlnt we use APE to tell all applications when they are ZOOMED to not go over our application?

Since I would be nice to have the dock still work right!

The concept is having an application that is always on top, and that other applications would not launch or be zoomed under our app...

[Chuckit]

Yes, you could use APE. You'd have to patch -[NSScreen visibleFrame] and GetAvailableWindowPositioningBounds() to exclude the area of the screen with your window.

[BrandonCorbin]

Chuckit, you rock.

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Yes, you could use APE. You'd have to patch -[NSScreen visibleFrame] and GetAvailableWindowPositioningBounds() to exclude the area of the screen with your window.