Re: A window behind everything & how disable events on it...

FROM : Brian Nenninger
DATE : Fri Dec 13 12:54:17 2002

Thank you very much, that works perfectly. It seems like
-setIgnoresMouseEvents: should handle this automatically, I'll file a
bug report.

Brian

On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 02:05 PM,
<email_removed> wrote:

> setIgnoresMouseEvents: does work for Cocoa applications only!
>
> You need to use Carbon to change the behaviour for Carbon apps (i.e.
> Finder). Like so:
>
> - (void)setClickThrough:(BOOL)clickThrough
> {
>     /* carbon */
>     void *ref = [aWindow windowRef];
>     if (clickThrough)
>         ChangeWindowAttributes(ref, kWindowIgnoreClicksAttribute,
> kWindowNoAttributes);
>     else
>         ChangeWindowAttributes(ref, kWindowNoAttributes,
> kWindowIgnoreClicksAttribute);
>     /* cocoa */
>     [aWindow setIgnoresMouseEvents:clickThrough];
> }
>
> And don't forget to use a borderless window.