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Re: how to make a window remain on the foreground?

Linea Tessile Srl:

We are using several tables in our application.
These tables are opened from a first window(1), by clicking on a button. The table then opens in a second window(2), which appears on the foreground.
When the user then clicks on the window(1) again, the window(2) goes in background. How can we make the window(2) remain in the foreground, even when the window(1) is clicked?

Firstly, are you sure you really, really want to do this? Displaying document content in a floating window is a gross violation of the HIG.

Secondly, this really ought to be directed to cocoa-dev or carbon-dev, as appropriate. However: in Cocoa, make your window an NSPanel and make it a Utility Window[1] (this can be done in InterfaceBuilder). In Carbon, you can create a window of kFloatingWindowClass, or place the window in the floating window group manually (GetWindowGroupOfClass(kFloatingWindowClass)). It is technically possible to use the latter method on a Cocoa window (using [-NSWindow windowRef]), but this may well confuse Cocoa.


[1] Apple has used "Utility Window" a tad inconsistently over the years. In this case, it means a window that floats over other windows of the same application.

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Jens Ayton
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