Migrate a Window special tool to macOS, this tool can modify the attributes of other application

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I have a Windows tool, it allows we move cursor, click on any third-party window on the desktop to get their related window handle, then we can use those handles to change the attribute of the third-party window such as alpha, WS_VISIBLE, cloak etc of the selected window, is it possible to implement those features in macOS?

The Windows APIs used: WindowFromPoint, SetCapture, GetCapture, SetWindowLong, DwmSetWindowAttribute, ModifyWindow, FindWindow etc, Is there any mapped macOS APIs for those purposes?

I planned to use Swift and Objective-C, but not sure if it is possible or not

No code yet, just for investigation

not yet

Looks like it is possible via QT, anyway, I don't use QT – Steven Jul 23 '19 at 16:46 — Steven, Jul 23 '19 at 16:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 23 '19 at 16:51

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Not possible to port all those features, the closest example will be SonOfGrab

answered Jul 23 '19 at 16:51

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Migrate a Window special tool to macOS, this tool can modify the attributes of other application

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