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On Mac OS X Snow Leopard with fast user switching enabled, is there an API to detect whether or not my application is running in the active user session? I.e. the session currently attached to screen and keyboard.
Either Objective-C or C++ is fine.
I avoided using User Switch Notifications and instead have found two other possibilities:
Use
CGMainDisplayID()from Core Graphics. Store the main display ID when your app first starts and keep polling it. It will change to a different display ID when switching to another user. Problem with this is it may also change for other reasons e.g. changing which display is the primary display in a multi-screen setup.Use
CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary()also from Core Graphics, and retrieve thekCGSessionOnConsoleKeyBoolean value from the dictionary. This indicates whether your user session is attached to console.Both of these require polling but this is fine for my purposes. User Switch Notifications would be a better choice if you need to be event-driven.