afloat is very useful to keep the window above all the windows in mac, but only cocoa based applications. Is there a way that one can achieve this feature for other applications programmatically. example firefox
I do not want to use afloat, but I would like to know how to code this feature in mac.
Thanks a lot!!
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We have firebug or chropath or inspect element methods to find locators of a web application. Similarly, how to identify element of a Mac desktop application (for example, iTunes desktop app)?
Thanks in advance.
Use Accessibility Inspector,just type in Inspector in the spotlight. So far, its able to get class, text and labels, but not well recognize using it with Appium. I am hoping for a better more accurate tool.
You can use pyatom (python library for automated testing on MAC).
PyAtom is Python library to fully enable GUI testing of Mac applications via the Apple Accessibility API.
Github link - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom
I have a resource DLL for a Windows Delphi app. I want to port this to macOS, and eventually to iOS (for iPad only, not iPhone). I have yet to dip my toes into developing outside of the VCL (I don't even own a Mac yet, though I know I will need one eventually). The FireMonkey stuff, no problem (yet). I just wonder what approach to take to port a Windows resource DLL to other platforms.
For Firemonkey, you can user the dialog box in menu "Project / Resource and images".
This help page will give you code sample to use it in your program :
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Resource_Files_Support
I want a small functionality for all my Mac OSX application windows. When I double click on the title bar, either nothing happens or the application will get minimised(if the appropriate option is checked) instead, I want to create a functionality where it will get maximised completely(not full screen).
I am assuming that I should write a daemon for this but I am quite new to coding.
So my question is:
Can my "goal" be achieved by a daemon?
No, it cannot. There is no way to implement this functionality with public APIs on Mac OS X.
I'm porting some Qt apps to Mac OS. And have some questions because I have no experience in developing apps for Mac OS.
Where Applications usually save there settings in Mac OS?
How to handle file dropping on icon in dock?
Mac OS X applications typically save their settings in ~/Library/Preferences/ using an XML document called a Property List. If you use the QCoreApplication::setOrganization(..) et all methods, just use QSettings and your code will remain cross platform and do the right thing.
Handling file dropping on the application icon is a little more involved but there is already a pretty good answer and also a Qt Quarterly dealing with this problem. It will basically involve:
Setting up the Info.plist in the application bundle to identify what files types are handled by your application.
Subclassing QApplication to handle QEvent::FileOpen.
Would like to understand how to build a tool like the mac os dash board widget (web clip). Am looking at trying to build it with webkit but not sure if thats the right way to go.
Some thoughts were to using webkit and some DOM to display only the viewport that a user requests.
While this works so well on mac os, am trying to build it on windows with .Net.
Dashboard just uses webkit to display some HTML and JavaScript for the dynamic parts, but there are a couple of extensions. Apple have developer documentation on Dashboard.