Mouse over active window title bar event

[renebrandel]

I’d like to have an event that is raised when my mouse hovers over the title bar of the active window. I’m trying to build a window management app that can use vim like commands “jkl;” to snap the window to the right places. I don’t see an existing event that can help with that. Any advice?

[tmandry]

You can subscribe to global mouse events through some of the normal system APIs (I can’t remember them off the top of my head), and match up their coordinates to window coordinates that you get from Swindler.

If you need to know the coordinates of the title bar specifically, you’ll probably want to get the raw AXUIElement from Swindler and look for child elements with that role (look through the enum AXRole in my AXSwift library).

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I’d like to have an event that is raised when my mouse hovers over the title bar of the active window. I’m trying to build a window management app that can use vim like commands “jkl;” to snap the window to the right places. I don’t see an existing event that can help with that. Any advice?

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[renebrandel]

Thanks Tyler for the quick response.

you’ll probably want to get the raw AXUIElement from Swindler and look for child elements with that role

Is there a way to easily get the raw AXElement through the Swindler window. Just looking at the Window definition, I wasn’t able to access the raw AXElement.