Re: how to make an NSWindow unmovable...
Re: how to make an NSWindow unmovable...
- Subject: Re: how to make an NSWindow unmovable...
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:12:57 -0700
On 12 jun 2005, at 03.05, Scott Thompson wrote:
Perhaps the more important question to ask here is why do you want
to prevent the user from moving a window with a title bar. The
title bar is there for a reason and denying the user the ability to
move a window with a title bar is a very bad violation of the
Macintosh User Interface conventions.
I have to echo this concern! Don't do it! This is one of the
advantages of Cocoa apps over Carbon apps - that you can move their
windows around without having to involve the application. If the app
is unresponsive, you can still move the windows.
If the user wants to move your window, why should you go out of your
way to try to prevent it? IMO that's a rather rude thing to do.
This is actually one of a number of things that I would like to see
improved in Mac OS X:
* You should _always_ be able to move windows, without having to
involve the app
* You should _always_ be able to hide an application, even if it's
busy / hung
* If I have focus in a window (I'm busy typing something in a text
field for example), no other app should be _ever_ be able to steal
focus from that window
The user should have priority!
Locking windows / apps on screen, possibly hiding something that I
would rather see, or popping up windows in front of whatever I'm
doing, should simply be disallowed by the OS. If this is something
that is absolutely required for some application, it should still be
something that the user can enable / disable per application.
j o a r
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