macos-carbon

How can I programmatically force a mac window to be the front window? I have the window handle, and want to ensure that my window is displayed above all other windows. I can use both Carbon & Cocoa for this. For Cocoa, you can set the window level using: [window setLevel:NSFloatingWindowLevel]; A floating window will display above all other regular windows, even if your app isn't active. If you want to make your app active, you can use: [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES]; and [window makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil]; If you can (32 bit only) use kOverlayWindowClass: WindowRef carbon_window = NULL;

It appears after much searching that there seems to be a common problem when trying to do a file copy and show a progress indicator relative to the amount of the file that has been copied. After spending some considerable time trying to resolve this issue, I find myself at the mercy of the StackOverflow Gods once again :-) - Hopefully one day I'll be among those that can help out the rookies too! I am trying to get a progress bar to show the status of a copy process and once the copy process has finished, call a Cocoa method. The challenge - I need to make use of File Manager Carbon calls

Games need low-level access to keyboard input. On Windows, there's DirectInput. But what technology do Mac OS X game developers use? Obviously, there's enough Mac games which get keyboard input just right, without the drawbacks of the commonly known solutions: Solution #1: Use keyUp / keyDown events -(void)keyUp:(NSEvent*)event; -(void)keyDown:(NSEvent*)event; Inacceptable drawback: keyDown events are repeated based on the system preference settings for "key repeat rate" and "key repeat delay". This causes an initial keyDown event followed by a pause before it starts repeating at a rate

I'm trying to control windows of a foreign OSX applications from my application. I'd like to 1. move the windows on the screen 2. resize the windows on the screen 3. change the currently active window of the application 4. get the currently active window. (And I'd like to do this either through ObjC/C/C++ apis). What are the API calls that I should be looking for, considering that I have the CGWindowIDs of the windows that I want to control? That is, I'd expect to find functions with signatures of something like: MoveWindow(CGWindowID winId, int x, int y) , ResizeWindow(CGWindowID winId, int

How can I get the process details like name of application & real path of application from process id? I am using Mac OS X. It's quite easy to get the process name / location if you know the PID, just use proc_name or proc_pidpath. Have a look at the following example, which provides the process path: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <libproc.h> int main (int argc, char* argv[]) { pid_t pid; int ret; char pathbuf[PROC_PIDPATHINFO_MAXSIZE]; if ( argc > 1 ) { pid = (pid_t) atoi(argv[1]); ret = proc_pidpath (pid, pathbuf, sizeof(pathbuf)); if

I would like to add a new item to the Finder sidebar. I found out that the Finder keeps the list of "places" in `~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist. I was able to read the file using Carbon API and saw that each item had Name, icon and alias. Using a 3rd party application such as PlistEdit Pro I was able to update the alias. My question is how to update the alias using Carbon API. Was not able to find a way to create alias that will open in Finder. It seem that both Dropbox and PlistEditor Pro was able to find the way. Asmus Take a look here : The Shared File List API is new to