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Re: Accepting Background Clicks



On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:47:19 -0700, Sanford Selznick
<email@hidden> said:
>I have an NSDocument based application.  When it's in the background,
>and users click on my window, I'd like the app to respond to the
>mouse-down as if it was clicked in the foreground.
>
>In Safari, a mouse-down on one of its windows while in the background
>will bring the window to the front and highlight the control.  This
>is the behavior I want.
>
>I've tried playing with SetFrontProcess and intercepting mousedown
>events, but it's not working like Safari.
>
>What's the best way to accept front clicks in a background Cocoa app?

I really dislike that behavior in apps, so I'm hoping you don't read the
documentation, where you might find out about acceptsFirstMouse. m.

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