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Re: classic floating window behavior?

At 13:05 Uhr -0800 30.03.2004, m wrote:
So I tried creating a window using the Carbon API's in my awakeFromNib method thusly:
OSStatus status = CreateNewWindow (kFloatingWindowClass, kWindowStandardFloatingAttributes, &bounds, &windowRef);

if (status == noErr)
{
mFloater = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithWindowRef:windowRef];
[mFloater orderFront:self];
}

The result was a window that did not float above my app windows or any other apps windows. In fact, it didn't respond to clicking at all. Must be more to it, eh?

You would have to install a standard handler, probably.

SetWindowClass((WindowRef)[mFloater windowRef], kFloatingWindowClass);

(mFloater in this case is a pre-existing NSPanel instantiated from the Nib file.) In this instance, I got a floating window that still floats above all app windows.

Okay, then it looks like I simply remembered something of the way it worked in OS 9. This definitely used to work this way in Carbon, but I guess they don't have any application-specific layers in OS X anymore. I see one more venue to investigate:

Use setLevel: to move your window into the document layer, and use a category to replace orderFront: and any other window-order-changing methods with a method that does the same as orderFront: (never done this, but I heard it is messy because you need to get the IMP of the original method to be able to call it and only *then* load the category, e.g. from a bundle) and afterwards sends all your floaters an orderFront: as well.

You could of course also just discard the entire idea for now and simply file an Enhancement Request with Apple's Bugreporter and hope they agree this is needed and add it.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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