[rahulnair]

Im a grad student at Georgia tech and as part of a research project need to write an OS X program to find out details about the windows on a desktop such as the title, take snapshots, when they gain/lose focus, window maximise/minimize, creation, closure, etc...

Can anyone give me a few pointer on how to go about this? Are there any hooks that I can use to extract this data? Some people have suggested using the NSworkspace class.

Thanks
Rahul

[Gul Banana]

About the only way to do this is using the Accessibility API - some sample code is at http://homepage.mac.com/castiglione/source.html
Or maybe the new GUI Scripting addons for Applescript...

[someone_else]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
About the only way to do this is using the Accessibility API - some sample code is at http://homepage.mac.com/castiglione/source.html
Or maybe the new GUI Scripting addons for Applescript...

You may also be able to hook in via some of the CGRemote stuff. That should get you everything you want and it works on 10.1 and 10.2. But, you're probably looking at quite a bit of work.

HTH.