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Re: Alternate for NSUIElement
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Re: Alternate for NSUIElement


  • Subject: Re: Alternate for NSUIElement
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:36:30 -0500
  • Mail-followup-to: Philip George <email@hidden>, "Max Seelemann.de" <email@hidden>, email@hidden

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:15:30PM -0500, Philip George wrote:
> NSBGOnly
> and
> LSBackgroundOnly
>
> These are synonymous as far as I have been able to tell. I don't know
> if they plan to remove NSBGOnly and only use LSBackgroundOnly, but the
> latter showed up in later documentation and the documentation (if I
> remember correctly) implies that NSBGOnly may later be deprecated.
> Again, from what I have observed, they behave identically.
>
> BUT...
>
> They don't behave exactly like NSUIElement.
>
> NSUIElement allows the app to accept focus or become key or become
> active. NSBGOnly and LSBackgroundOnly do not allow that. They are more
> for background apps than just removing the icon from the dock and other
> such things. They do accept clicks, but they do not accept keyboard
> events.

LSUIElement is the replacement for NSUIElement; LSBackgroundOnly (as
you observed) is the replacement for NSBGOnly.

--
=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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References: 
 >Alternate for NSUIElement (From: "Max Seelemann.de" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Alternate for NSUIElement (From: Philip George <email@hidden>)

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