Move Window Support

[anyoddthing]

One of my favorite features is "Move & Resize Windows" with modifiers so I don't have to find the borders..

A known limitation is that this does not work with all windows:

BetterSnapTool: Window Move / Resize with Key + Mouse feature not working for some windows

The resize /move window feature does not work consistently across all windows. It does not work in the following situations: Finder (it does work for normal folder navigation panels, it does NOT work as soon as, e.g., an iPhone panel is shown - in this case the sidebar and title bar work but not the phone panel) MS Excel 2022 (it did work on Office 2019). The same as above (works for the title bar but not for the spreadsheet part) Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trac…

I'm a developer myself and learned that this is the case for (all?) apps created with DotNet/AvaloniaUI.

Probably a question for @Andreas_Hegenberg: do you know what I could do in my own apps to make the main window react in the right way? In the linked post you mentioned APIs that are not properly implemented in those apps. What are those?

Best,
Daniel

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

It's the Apple Accessibility API, however this would probably need to be supported at the UI framework level (Accessibility support for targeted platforms needs to be considered · Issue #585 · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · GitHub )

(they seem to have some basic support Avalonia/src/Avalonia.Native/AvnAutomationPeer.cs at master · AvaloniaUI/Avalonia · GitHub, not sure about the details though)

Most important would be that the windows have the size and position attributes gettable and settable (default for any standard NSWindows, not sure how windows are created with DotNet/Avalonia.

  AXUIElementSetAttributeValue(theWindow, kAXPositionAttribute, thePosition);
  AXUIElementSetAttributeValue(theWindow, kAXSizeAttribute, theSize);

[anyoddthing]

Thanks a lot @Andreas_Hegenberg

I'll see if I can find out more