Hi Josh, Ah I see, that makes sense now - as the app I wanted to replace (Afloat) installs SIMBL first - hence me wondering whether it might have been something possible with MacRuby (without SIMBL).
Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated. Aston On 20 Nov 2011, at 00:37, Joshua Ballanco wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, az...@gmx.net <az...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to make a Lion app(/option) with MacRuby which allows you to > change the opacity (alpha value) of other apps/windows via the View menu? > > So say I have a PDF open in Preview, I'd go to: view menu > transparency, and > then set it to 50% > > Is this possible? Would it be a pain to do? I don't think I've seen any > MacRuby apps that add functionality to other apps like this so am guessing > it's not trivial. > > Hi Aston, > > Forgive the quick and dirty description... Properties of an application's > windows are controllable by the operating system or the application itself. > Allowing a different application access to the window is, generally speaking, > a violation of process separation. That said, you might look into SIMBL. It > allows you to inject code into a running process. Not as a separate process, > but it is possible to modify an already running process. > > Hope that helps. > > - Josh > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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