Was a little inspired by that color app that was p...
# compose-desktopc
Colton Idle
02/11/2021, 2:13 AMWas a little inspired by that color app that was posted earlier today and I got to thinking that I maybe want to build a color picker app. Does compose desktop allow you to hook into accessibility on mac in order to grab colors from other apps? Or would I have to build a native mac app to access those apis?
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jim
02/11/2021, 2:29 AMThat isn't a compose-specific question, as you would use the same APIs that you would use for any desktop Java application. I don't think there are any pure Java APIs to do that, but you could certainly achieve it using a bit of JNI.
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Colton Idle
02/11/2021, 2:35 AMSorry. As an Android dev all of this is still very new to me. I guess what you said makes sense though that anything that you can typically do in desktop java, you can do with compose. Thanks
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romainguy
02/11/2021, 2:43 AMjava.awt.Robot might do what you want
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Kirill Grouchnikov
02/11/2021, 4:40 AMOn Big Sur, using those Robot APIs will pop up a security warning and the user will need to grant Java runtime the relevant permissions
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romainguy
02/11/2021, 4:27 PMFTW it’s true of native apps that want to read the screen to pick colors as well
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