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Re: Matching Cocoa Window Levels in Carbon

Why not using the spellchecking services in a Carbon window?
I know you'll have to implement the UI but that should resolve the issues
you mentioned, and will give you the opportunity to customize the UI.

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Le 11/3/03 10:09 AM, Nick Nallick at email@hidden wrote:

>> Is there a specific problem that you're trying to solve by doing this?
>
> Suppose I want to use the Cocoa spell checking window (a floating Cocoa
> window). Ideally the user wouldn't be able to tell that this window
> was any different than the other floating windows in my app.
> Currently, since all my Carbon windows are at level zero and the Cocoa
> window is greater than zero, it is above all of my floating and modal
> windows. You see the same thing with the font panel windows (i.e.,
> Cocoa windows with a Carbon API). I'm also trying to figure out if
> it's reasonable to drop the Carbon color picker and use the Cocoa
> version directly.
>
> If I put all of my floating windows at the same level as the Cocoa
> window and my modal windows above it, I get more normal behavior. The
> only problem I've noticed is that the floating windows don't seem to
> know about floating windows in the other environment. If I click in
> the content area of a floating window it comes forward if it was behind
> another floating window it knows about, but if it thinks it's the front
> window in it's group it doesn't move. This isn't a problem if I click
> in the window's title bar instead of its content area.
>
> Nick
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