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Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Goo

by mgsk 6y ago

Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Good luck.

qmmmur 6y ago
I really would love something like rofi for macos
- jamesgeck0 6y ago
  I think a combination of Alfred and Hammerspoon could get you most of the way there?
bluedino 6y ago
You can get the dock icon (app) list pretty easily, along with their windows https://github.com/robilic/DockHand https://github.com/robilic/DockHand
wallflower 6y ago
The famous Dropbox Mac finder hack. It may have been mythologized a little, as Rajiv Eranki was probably the genius hacker who figured it out. > Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that. > Rajiv Eranki (early employee, no longer at Dropbox) did much of the reverse-engineering required to get the our file overlay icons onto files in the Finder, and also to get us into context menus. https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropb... https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-that-he-reverse-engineered-Apple’s-file-system-so-that-his-startup’s-logo-an-unfolding-box-appeared-elegantly-tucked-inside-what-does-this-mean https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t...
dorian-graph 6y ago
If you haven't figured this out yet, I'd maybe look into the code behind https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.switcher.html https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.switcher.html.

by mgsk 6y ago

Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Good luck.

qmmmur 6y ago

I really would love something like rofi for macos

jamesgeck0 6y ago
I think a combination of Alfred and Hammerspoon could get you most of the way there?

bluedino 6y ago

You can get the dock icon (app) list pretty easily, along with their windows https://github.com/robilic/DockHand https://github.com/robilic/DockHand

wallflower 6y ago

The famous Dropbox Mac finder hack. It may have been mythologized a little, as Rajiv Eranki was probably the genius hacker who figured it out. > Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company that got away. Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that. > Rajiv Eranki (early employee, no longer at Dropbox) did much of the reverse-engineering required to get the our file overlay icons onto files in the Finder, and also to get us into context menus. https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropb... https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-that-he-reverse-engineered-Apple’s-file-system-so-that-his-startup’s-logo-an-unfolding-box-appeared-elegantly-tucked-inside-what-does-this-mean https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t...

dorian-graph 6y ago

If you haven't figured this out yet, I'd maybe look into the code behind https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.switcher.html https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.switcher.html.