Re: Child windows?

FROM : Bill Cheeseman
DATE : Thu Jan 30 22:40:45 2003

on 03-01-30 11:49 AM, Ian G. Gillespie at <email_removed> wrote:

> This is a question I asked a while ago and got no response from it, so
> I will ask again since childWindow: as come up again.  I am wondering
> how I can have a childWindow be the first responder without the parent
> window becoming "deactivated".  I don't think I eloquently said that so
> here is an example:
>
> In Mail, when you begin typing in an address, a borderless window
> appears with a table in it that has all a list of addresses that match
> the one you are typing.  Rows in that table are selected (so it is the
> first responder?), but the scroll bars on the main composer window do
> not gray out or become "deactivated".  Anyone know how to get this
> behavior?


You want to look at material about "nonactivating" windows, and related
settings. A good starting place might be the documentation in the NSPanel
class reference document for the setBecomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded: method, and be
sure to follow the links to related methods. There are some relevant
settings in the IB Info Panel for NSPanels, too, I think.

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