smokris
Reputation: 11840
How to position a Cocoa window to minimize overlap with other windows?
I'm working on a Cocoa app that has a main window and a preview window. I'd like the preview window to automatically position itself to minimize overlap with other windows — it definitely shouldn't overlap my app's main window, and it should try not to overlap other applications' windows.
How should I do this?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 393
Answers (1)
Fruity Geek
Reputation: 7381
Apple has a sample application called Son of Grab that shows you how to consume all current windows.
CFArrayRef windowList = CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo(kCGWindowListOptionOnScreenOnly, kCGNullWindowID); will give you the current windows. You can interrogate the kCGWindowBounds value to get the bounds of the returned windows.
Upvotes: 1
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