CoreDockSendNotification - hewigovens/hewigovens.github.com GitHub Wiki

CoreDockSendNotification is an undocumented API, the main functionally of Expose.app/Launchpad.app/Mission Control.app are implemented by Dock, these apps just send notifications out.

####Proof

% nm /Applications/Launchpad.app/Contents/MacOS/Launchpad
                 U _CoreDockSendNotification
                 U ___CFConstantStringClassReference
0000000100000000 T __mh_execute_header
                 U _exit
                 U dyld_stub_binder

####Notifications:

com.apple.launchpad.toggle
com.apple.expose.awake
com.apple.showdesktop.awake
com.apple.expose.front.awake

####Example


#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
#include <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>

CG_EXTERN void CoreDockSendNotification(CFStringRef);

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    //you need adding link to ApplicationServices.framework
    CoreDockSendNotification(CFSTR("com.apple.launchpad.toggle"));
    return 0;
}

####Other reference