Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Wed Nov 26 21:21:40 EST 2014


I believe that portion of the dictionary entry refers to the onscreen keyboard, which doesn't exist on desktop.  But either way, it seems that "effective" cannot be used on desktop without "working".

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Nov 26, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/26/2014 7:14 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) wrote:
>> Ok, So use the 'effective ScreenRect' which will give you the location of
>> the selected window.
> 
> Is that an undocumented feature? The Dictionary (in 6.7 or 7.0) states
> "Adding the effective adjective to either form returns the area of the
> screen the application has to itself. In particular, if the keyboard is
> activated, it take into account if the keyboard is taking up space on
> the screen. (Android and iOS only)" so I assumed effective screenRect is
> meaningless under OSX.
> 
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