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Nick Tamburri - 22 Jun 2007 15:55 GMT

Could anyone provide me with some insight into how virtual desktop
programs such as Desktop Manager and Leopard's Spaces are implemented?
I fear that they do it by transitioning from one screen to another and
telling selected applications to Hide/Unhide themselves as appropriate
for the new screen. This would not be good for an application I was
thinking of.

A documentation starting point would be fine, assuming it's not too
vague. Thanks.

/nt

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Gregory Weston - 22 Jun 2007 16:31 GMT

> Could anyone provide me with some insight into how virtual desktop
> programs such as Desktop Manager and Leopard's Spaces are implemented?
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> A documentation starting point would be fine, assuming it's not too
> vague. Thanks.

At least one such current tool - Virtue Desktops - is has source
available.

<http://trac.virtuedesktops.info/>

Looks like it relies on this undocumented stuff:

<http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CoreGraphicsPrivate>

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Nick Tamburri - 22 Jun 2007 19:02 GMT

> At least one such current tool - Virtue Desktops - is has source
> available.
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> <http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CoreGraphicsPrivate>

Thanks. I hadn't even heard of virtuedesktops.

/nt

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Nick Tamburri - 25 Jun 2007 16:33 GMT

> At least one such current tool - Virtue Desktops - is has source
> available.
>
> <http://trac.virtuedesktops.info/>

Looks like Desktop Manager is too now:<http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/>.

Thanks for the pointers.

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