Screen capture Access Prompt about node-mac-permissions

[Srini-B]

Not an elegant way, but I achieved it using another package
macos-accessibility-permissions
mac-screen-capture-permissions

[codebytere]

@Srini-B @theogravity does #60 address your issue?

Unfortunately the ergonomics aren't great for forcing the pref pane since it's kind of impossible to check in a clean way whether access has been denied previously or not yet queried, so i ended up adding a bool param to the request method. If that serves both of your needs well i can go ahead and merge it!

[notedit]

Same here, @Srini-B any ideas?

[theogravity]

I didn't have any success with those recommended packages on the latest electron version 23 and MacOS Ventura.

I was able to get the pane to open by using the following:

import { execSync } from 'child_process';
import { isMacOSVersionGreaterThanOrEqualTo } from 'macos-version';
import { systemPreferences } from 'electron';
import { askForScreenCaptureAccess } from 'node-mac-permissions';

// initial prompt
askForScreenCaptureAccess();
const status = systemPreferences.getMediaAccessStatus('screen');

// user denied prompt, open up the pane for them to do it then
if (status === 'denied' && isMacOSVersionGreaterThanOrEqualTo('10.16')) {
  try {
    execSync('open "x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_ScreenCapture"');
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e)
  }
}

[theogravity]

Actually it's how one of the other packages does it too. I'm ok with that! Thanks for that PR!