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CGSPrivate.h - undocumented APIs for OSX. Re-licensed under MIT licence.
/* CGSPrivate.h -- Header file for undocumented CoreGraphics stuff. */
/* This file is a relicensed portion of DesktopManager and was originally released under
* the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. Original licence text follows the new terms.
* The contents of this file has been re-released by the original author under the following terms:
*
* Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2013 Richard J Wareham <[email protected]>
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
* software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
* without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
* publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
* to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
* substantial portions of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
* BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
* NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
* DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
/* Original licence text follows. */
/* DesktopManager -- A virtual desktop provider for OS X
*
* Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Richard J Wareham <[email protected]>
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
* Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
* any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
* Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
/* These functions all return a status code. Typical CoreGraphics replies are:
kCGErrorSuccess = 0,
kCGErrorFirst = 1000,
kCGErrorFailure = kCGErrorFirst,
kCGErrorIllegalArgument = 1001,
kCGErrorInvalidConnection = 1002,
*/
// Internal CoreGraphics typedefs
typedef int CGSConnection;
typedef int CGSWindow;
typedef int CGSValue;
//// CONSTANTS ////
/* Window ordering mode. */
typedef enum _CGSWindowOrderingMode {
kCGSOrderAbove = 1, // Window is ordered above target.
kCGSOrderBelow = -1, // Window is ordered below target.
kCGSOrderOut = 0 // Window is removed from the on-screen window list.
} CGSWindowOrderingMode;
// Internal CoreGraphics functions.
/* Retrieve the workspace number associated with the workspace currently
* being shown.
*
* cid -- Current connection.
* workspace -- Pointer to int value to be set to workspace number.
*/
extern OSStatus CGSGetWorkspace(const CGSConnection cid, int *workspace);
/* Retrieve workspace number associated with the workspace a particular window
* resides on.
*
* cid -- Current connection.
* wid -- Window number of window to examine.
* workspace -- Pointer to int value to be set to workspace number.
*/
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowWorkspace(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, int *workspace);
/* Show workspace associated with a workspace number.
*
* cid -- Current connection.
* workspace -- Workspace number.
*/
extern OSStatus CGSSetWorkspace(const CGSConnection cid, int workspace);
typedef enum {
CGSNone = 0, // No transition effect.
CGSFade, // Cross-fade.
CGSZoom, // Zoom/fade towards us.
CGSReveal, // Reveal new desktop under old.
CGSSlide, // Slide old out and new in.
CGSWarpFade, // Warp old and fade out revealing new.
CGSSwap, // Swap desktops over graphically.
CGSCube, // The well-known cube effect.
CGSWarpSwitch // Warp old, switch and un-warp.
} CGSTransitionType;
typedef enum {
CGSDown, // Old desktop moves down.
CGSLeft, // Old desktop moves left.
CGSRight, // Old desktop moves right.
CGSInRight, // CGSSwap: Old desktop moves into screen,
// new comes from right.
CGSBottomLeft = 5, // CGSSwap: Old desktop moves to bl,
// new comes from tr.
CGSBottomRight, // Old desktop to br, New from tl.
CGSDownTopRight, // CGSSwap: Old desktop moves down, new from tr.
CGSUp, // Old desktop moves up.
CGSTopLeft, // Old desktop moves tl.
CGSTopRight, // CGSSwap: old to tr. new from bl.
CGSUpBottomRight, // CGSSwap: old desktop up, new from br.
CGSInBottom, // CGSSwap: old in, new from bottom.
CGSLeftBottomRight, // CGSSwap: old one moves left, new from br.
CGSRightBottomLeft, // CGSSwap: old one moves right, new from bl.
CGSInBottomRight, // CGSSwap: onl one in, new from br.
CGSInOut // CGSSwap: old in, new out.
} CGSTransitionOption;
typedef enum {
CGSTagExposeFade = 0x0002, // Fade out when Expose activates.
CGSTagNoShadow = 0x0008, // No window shadow.
CGSTagTransparent = 0x0200, // Transparent to mouse clicks.
CGSTagSticky = 0x0800, // Appears on all workspaces.
} CGSWindowTag;
extern OSStatus CGSSetWorkspaceWithTransition(const CGSConnection cid,
int workspaceNumber, CGSTransitionType transition, CGSTransitionOption subtype,
float time);
/* Get the default connection for the current process. */
extern CGSConnection _CGSDefaultConnection(void);
typedef struct {
uint32_t unknown1;
CGSTransitionType type;
CGSTransitionOption option;
CGSWindow wid; /* Can be 0 for full-screen */
float *backColour; /* Null for black otherwise pointer to 3 float array with RGB value */
} CGSTransitionSpec;
/* Transition handling. */
extern OSStatus CGSNewTransition(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSTransitionSpec* spec, int *pTransitionHandle);
extern OSStatus CGSInvokeTransition(const CGSConnection cid, int transitionHandle, float duration);
extern OSStatus CGSReleaseTransition(const CGSConnection cid, int transitionHandle);
// thirtyTwo must = 32 for some reason. tags is pointer to
//array ot ints (size 2?). First entry holds window tags.
// 0x0800 is sticky bit.
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowTags(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid,
CGSWindowTag *tags, int thirtyTwo);
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowTags(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid,
CGSWindowTag *tags, int thirtyTwo);
extern OSStatus CGSClearWindowTags(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid,
CGSWindowTag *tags, int thirtyTwo);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowEventMask(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, uint32_t *mask);
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowEventMask(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, uint32_t mask);
// Get on-screen window counts and lists.
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowCount(const CGSConnection cid, CGSConnection targetCID, int* outCount);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowList(const CGSConnection cid, CGSConnection targetCID,
int count, int* list, int* outCount);
// Get on-screen window counts and lists.
extern OSStatus CGSGetOnScreenWindowCount(const CGSConnection cid, CGSConnection targetCID, int* outCount);
extern OSStatus CGSGetOnScreenWindowList(const CGSConnection cid, CGSConnection targetCID,
int count, int* list, int* outCount);
// Per-workspace window counts and lists.
extern OSStatus CGSGetWorkspaceWindowCount(const CGSConnection cid, int workspaceNumber, int *outCount);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWorkspaceWindowList(const CGSConnection cid, int workspaceNumber, int count,
int* list, int* outCount);
// Gets the level of a window
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowLevel(const CGSConnection cid, CGSWindow wid,
int *level);
// Window ordering
extern OSStatus CGSOrderWindow(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid,
CGSWindowOrderingMode place, CGSWindow relativeToWindowID /* can be NULL */);
// Gets the screen rect for a window.
extern OSStatus CGSGetScreenRectForWindow(const CGSConnection cid, CGSWindow wid,
CGRect *outRect);
// Window appearance/position
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowAlpha(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, float alpha);
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowListAlpha(const CGSConnection cid, CGSWindow *wids, int count, float alpha);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowAlpha(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, float* alpha);
extern OSStatus CGSMoveWindow(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, CGPoint *point);
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowTransform(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, CGAffineTransform transform);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowTransform(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, CGAffineTransform * outTransform);
extern OSStatus CGSSetWindowTransforms(const CGSConnection cid, CGSWindow *wids, CGAffineTransform *transform, int n);
extern OSStatus CGSMoveWorkspaceWindows(const CGSConnection connection, int toWorkspace, int fromWorkspace);
extern OSStatus CGSMoveWorkspaceWindowList(const CGSConnection connection, CGSWindow *wids, int count,
int toWorkspace);
// extern OSStatus CGSConnectionGetPID(const CGSConnection cid, pid_t *pid, CGSConnection b);
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowProperty(const CGSConnection cid, CGSWindow wid, CGSValue key,
CGSValue *outValue);
//extern OSStatus CGSWindowAddRectToDirtyShape(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, CGRect *rect);
extern OSStatus CGSUncoverWindow(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid);
extern OSStatus CGSFlushWindow(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, int unknown /* 0 works */ );
extern OSStatus CGSGetWindowOwner(const CGSConnection cid, const CGSWindow wid, CGSConnection *ownerCid);
extern OSStatus CGSConnectionGetPID(const CGSConnection cid, pid_t *pid, const CGSConnection ownerCid);
// Values
extern CGSValue CGSCreateCStringNoCopy(const char *str);
extern char* CGSCStringValue(CGSValue string);
extern int CGSIntegerValue(CGSValue intVal);
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