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Providing global floating window

Subject: Providing global floating window
From: Nir Soffer <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:39:35 +0300

I want to provide a global floating window in a Cocoa app. The window should float above all other apps, and display a view with few buttons. However, when clicking the buttons - my app should NOT activate, as if the user interface belong to the other application.

Basically it works like Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer. I found that they run as background apps (/System/Library/Components/ CharacterPalette.component/Contents/SharedSupport/ CharPaletteServer.app, /System/Library/Components/ KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/ KeyboardViewerServer.app). CharPaletteServer uses LSUIElement plist key, and KeyboardViewerServer LSBackgroundOnly.

Is this the best way to provide such user interface?


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer

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