Re: Global utility windows

FROM : Clark Mueller
DATE : Sun Dec 22 18:55:40 2002

This produces the behavior I was looking for, thanks!

Clark

On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 03:25  PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:

> on 02-12-21 4:44 PM, Finlay Dobbie at <email_removed> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 09:27  pm, Clark Mueller wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>
> In Cocoa, you can do it right in IB. Make your window an NSPanel, then
> check
> the Utility Window setting. ("Utility window" doesn't stand right out
> as
> meaning global floating, but that's what it means, at least if you put
> [[self window] setHidesOnDeactivate:NO] in your controller's
> awakeFromNib
> method.
>
> If you don't want to do it in IB, look at setFloatingPanel: in NSPanel.
>
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