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SplitViewShortcut

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Start El Capitan's "Split View" with a configurable global keyboard shortcut

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# UPDATE: BetterTouchTool (http://www.boastr.net/) has added support for this, I recommend you use that instead.

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# Split View Shortcut

This is a hacky but effective solution to the lack of a keyboard shortcut to trigger OS X's new [**Split View**](https://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/) action.

##### [Download latest release.](https://github.com/rajington/SplitViewShortcut/releases)

## What do you mean hacky?

The utility finds the zoom button using Accessibility, and then creates a click-and-hold mouse event to start Split View. If there's a better way to do this let me know, I'll keep a list here of things I looked for:

* A method on `NSWindow` to toggle Split View like [`toggleFullScreen`](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWindow_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSWindow/toggleFullScreen:).

* An accessibility object action for starting Split View found using [`AXUIElementCopyActionNames`](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/ApplicationServices/Reference/AXUIElement_header_reference/index.html#//apple_ref/c/func/AXUIElementPerformAction) on the window's zoom button.

* A way to trigger click-and-hold mouse event other than `sleep` and `CGEventCreateMouseEvent`s

## Why not Spectacle or other window management apps?

[Spectacle](https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle/issues/282) and other apps cannot achieve true fullscreen because the Dock reserves pixels along the edge. They're still a lot more customizable and worth checking out if you haven't though.

## Disclaimer

Use this at your own risk and please submit bugs, features, or pull requests, and I will use those to prioritize my tasks. This is my first Swift project, my first Accessibility scripting project, and also even my first native Desktop application in a long time. There are things like Sparkle and Homebrew I might look into later if necessary.

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