I puzzled for a few hours over this the other night - it’s something that used to work in VirtueDesktops, and for some reason I just assumed it no longer functioned under Mac OS X 10.5. Aside from an embarrassing bout of forgetting to get the window number properly, this turned out to be remarkably simple.
You’ll need a copy of the CGSPrivate header in your project.
Simply use the following code, where ibo_window is an Interface Builder outlet to an NSWindow in your XIB file:
CGSWindowID windowId = (CGSWindowID)[ibo_window windowNumber];
// The following integer represents the space you want to move the
// window to - the array is not zero-based - Space 1 == 1, Space 2 == 2,
// etc
NSInteger spaceToMoveTo = 2;
// Window count can be more than one, but for this example we're
// using a single window
NSInteger windowCount = 1;
// Now for the magical call:
CGSMoveWorkspaceWindowList(_CGSDefaultConnection(),
&windowId,
windowCount,
spaceToMoveTo);
// If you want to check which space a window is on, simple use the
// following code:
NSInteger windowId = -1;
CGSGetWindowWorkspace(_CGSDefaultConnection(),
windowId,
&workspaceID);
NSLog(@"Your window is now on space %i", windowId);Easy, huh? I’m pretty sure this won’t work across processes (that’s why all the old desktop managers insert code into the running Dock application - it’s one of the only applications that has permission to muck about with other application’s windows). You should also probably try to intercept any errors thrown by the CGS* methods, but I’ll leave that as an exercise to you, gentle reader.