I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to
position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA.
Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere?
If anyone remembers this and has some info, I'd be much obliged.
I've been doing a lot of hacking on OS X lately rather than GNU/Linux,
and the window manager is nice but it ain't no DWM.
Something like the hack from RejectConf might help that some 
Greg-
That was Sebastian Delmont who wrote that hack. I had a copy of it somewhere but I cannot find it right now. I do knwo sebastians blog though:
Maybe you can find him armed with that info 
Cheers-
-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz-- Lead Rails Evangelist
-- ez@engineyard.com
-- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting
-- (866) 518-YARD (9273)
On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:
I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to
position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA.Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere?
If anyone remembers this and has some info, I'd be much obliged.
I've been doing a lot of hacking on OS X lately rather than GNU/Linux,
and the window manager is nice but it ain't no DWM.Something like the hack from RejectConf might help that some
Gregory Brown wrote:
I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to
position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA.Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere?
Dunno about RubyOSA, but here's the 'Stagger Finder Windows' example
from rb-appscript which might give you some ideas:
#######
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Rearranges Finder windows diagonally across screen with title bars
# one above another. (Could easily be adapted to work with any
# scriptable application that uses standard window class terminology.)
require "appscript"
include Appscript
x, y = 0, 44
offset = 22
# Get list of window references, ignoring any minimised windows
window_list = app('Finder').windows[its.collapsed.not].get
# Move windows while preserving their original sizes
window_list.reverse.each do |window|
x1, y1, x2, y2 = window.bounds.get
window.bounds.set([x, y, x2 - x1 + x, y2 - y1 + y])
x += offset
y += offset
end
#######
A couple of tips:
- If writing general-purpose a script to work with multiple apps, note
that the terminology tends to vary a bit: Carbon scriptable apps often
use 'collapsed' while Cocoa ones use 'minimized'. You could probably
just try 'minimized' first, then try 'collapsed' if an 'unknown
property' error occurs. If both fail, the app is probably
non-scriptable, in which case it'll either have to be ignored, or
controlled via System Events' GUI Scripting facilities.
- If you're writing a script to adjust multiple applications' windows
at once, some apps (e.g. Photoshop, InDesign, XCode) can have pretty
huge terminologies, so there may a perceptible delay while appscript
parses all of these these. Should you find the script lacks teh snappy
because of this, you could avoid the overhead by using the lower-level
AEM module, which uses raw Apple event codes, instead of the
terminology-driven Appscript module.
HTH
has
--
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org
Oh, i'll just hunt him down at a NYC.rb meeting or something. Thanks!
On 1/22/07, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:
> I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to
> position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA.
>
> Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available
> somewhere?
>
> If anyone remembers this and has some info, I'd be much obliged.
>
Oh, i'll just hunt him down at a NYC.rb meeting or something. Thanks!
On 1/22/07, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:
That was Sebastian Delmont who wrote that hack. I had a copy of it
somewhere but I cannot find it right now. I do knwo sebastians blog
though:
Thanks for the snippet and the advice. Not sure when I'll get a
chance to play with all of this, but this post will sure help.
On 1/23/07, has <has.temp3@virgin.net> wrote:
Gregory Brown wrote:
> I remember vaguely from RejectConf someone hacked up something to
> position windows on OS X using Ruby OSA.
>
> Did this ever get released? Or at least, is that code available somewhere?Dunno about RubyOSA, but here's the 'Stagger Finder Windows' example
from rb-appscript which might give you some ideas:
Has anyone successfully created an Exchange mailbox using Ruby? I am stuck at a dead-end trying to do so.
Thanks,
Charles
It looks like you could use the CDOEXM in Microsoft Exchange System Manager
Tools. I googled this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327079, which is in
VB, but could easily be translated to use WIN32OLE in Ruby.
Another thing, slightly offtopic and not directly pertaining to this
question, there seem to be many questions on this list about
WIN32OLE/WIN32API that aren't necessarily Ruby specific and would be
essentially the same in Perl/Python/C#/VB/et, al. I don't mind posts like
this at all, but they might appear as noise to those who aren't interested.
Does anyone know of any programming language agnostic mailing lists for
Windows OLE programming? Just a thought.
Nate
On 1/23/07, Charles Leeds <charlesleeds@rowdyrhino.com> wrote:
Has anyone successfully created an Exchange mailbox using Ruby? I am
stuck at a dead-end trying to do so.Thanks,
Charles
