[MacRuby-devel] A question about OSX APIs.

[Rob Gleeson]

On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:54, Scott Thompson wrote:

> 
> On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Rob Gleeson wrote:
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>> Hey MacRubyists,
>> 
>> This question isn't strictly MacRuby related, but if I get an answer I'd like to try and implement it in MacRuby.
>> 
>> The OSX WM doesn't seem to be able to treat a stack of windows as an individual stack that you can cycle through,
>> for example an entire "Space" is treated as one stack. 
>> 
>> I'd like to mark or treat a group of windows overlapping each other as one "stack", and when an application in that stack 
>> has focus, a key binding(such as cmd+p, cmd+n) would cycle through that stack.
>> 
>> My question really is, what APIs would I look at? Is it possible? Is it feasible? 
> 
> I believe the key binding you are looking for is cmd-back-quote (cmd-`)
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Scott
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Kind of :-) cmd+` seems to cycle focus between windows belonging to a single application.
I'd like to group a random number of windows that don't belong to a single application, and cycle
through those.

It's quite possible my google foo is that weak and I'm missing something that is already a feature ;-)

Rob