Re: Global utility windows

FROM : Jan Van Boghout
DATE : Sat Dec 21 23:23:56 2002

I don't think that's what he meant. A more or less global window can be
set in Interface Builder (just check the checkbox "Non-activating
panel" for your panel)

>> Can these be done in Cocoa? What I'm looking for is a window that
>> behaves like a utility window but that stays floating in all
>> applications, like is used in Christ's Tree (it's on Apple's main Mac
>> OS X downloads page, right now)? Can it be done in Cocoa? Can it be
>> done in Carbon? I haven't been able to find how to do it at all, but
>> I've seen a lot of evidence that it's possible. I haven't found any
>> kind of documentation that has tipped me off, and all of my web
>> searches on the topic have turned up dry - many examples of apps that
>> use them, but none on how to make them.
>
> See NSWindow's setWindowLevel method for the Cocoa way of doing it
> (and also see CGWindowLevel.h in CoreGraphics.framework).
>
>  -- Finlay
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