Ways to get z-index

[camhart]

Is there any way possible to get the z-index of each window? I can't find an attribute that seems to indicate z-index.

[tmandry]

Unfortunately, the only way I know of to do this involves a private API (specifically, _AXUIElementGetWindow to get the CGWindowID; then you can use CGWindowListCreate to get the windows in z-index order).

Hammerspoon does this (see code here and here).

I'm not sure I want to expose any private/unsupported APIs through AXSwift. If I do, it would be just a bare binding around _AXUIElementGetWindow with properly documented disclaimers around how this may stop working. Feel free to submit a PR if you want this. Higher level functionality on top of that wouldn't go in AXSwift (but perhaps it could go in Swindler).

[camhart]

Thanks for the response! I'll look into doing it myself. Feel free to close this unless you want to keep it around as a potential future feature.