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  • Subject: owning the screen?
  • From: Jeff Ganyard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:53:01 -0700

A bit of a newbie here... please pardon any exposed ignorance. :)

I'm looking for a way to own all user interactions. On certain occasions I need to put up some UI that is systemically modal, I can't allow any app switching or interaction with anything other than this UI until it is dismissed by the user.

I thought that CGCaptureAllDisplays was my magic bullet. It blacks out all screens, I can then display my UI above it but all that black is way too abrupt. Unfortunately, there is no way to manipulate the shielding layer. So what I'm looking for is something similar but allows some manipulation of how it is displayed. If I could just make that shield layer translucent... Is there any way? I tried a few approaches but only got the black layer.

Any suggestions on other approaches would be most appreciated!

tia,
jeff
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