Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

[Sean Cole (Pi)]

Ok, So use the 'effective ScreenRect' which will give you the location of
the selected window.

Sean Cole


On 26 November 2014 at 23:40, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/2014 6:11 PM, Pi Digital wrote:
> > Paul
> >
> > It's the difference between the screenRect and the 'working screenRect'.
> The dictionary describes these well under screenRect.
> >
> > Sean Cole
> > Pi Digital
> I assume you are referring to checking the differences in the rects
> returned by 'the screenrects' vs 'the working screenrects' to determine
> which is reduced by the size of the menubar, but under Maverick and
> Yosemite, the menubar appears on EVERY monitor, it is just (potentially)
> dimmed on the monitor that does not contain the active window of the
> application and undimmed on the monitor with the active window, so there
> should be no difference in the working screenRects as each would be
> reduced by the height of a menubar. Good idea though, even if it won't
> work to detect the App's active monitor.
>
> For those interested who have not tried dual monitors under 10.9+ you
> can actually have both menubars active for different application. If App
> #1 is on Monitor A and has an active window, it menubar will show on
> Monitor A and if App #2 is on Monitor B with an active window, monitor B
> will have App #2's menubar active.
>
> And I haven't figured out how yet, but apparently you can assign app to
> have default monitors, so that an app will always come up on the monitor
> that it has been assigned to.
>
> -- Paul
>
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