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Re: Problems when putting a window between desktop and desktop icons
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Re: Problems when putting a window between desktop and desktop icons


  • Subject: Re: Problems when putting a window between desktop and desktop icons
  • From: "Markus Amalthea Magnuson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:27:15 +0100

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 21:45, Karl Goiser <email@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Markus and others,
>
> This is a problem that I have had with an application of mine, iCalViewer,
> which displays a window on the desktop.
>
> What happens is that you can find a window level which draws the window
> under the desktop icons and over the desktop itself.  However, at that
> level, that window captures the mouse events as if it was _over_ the desktop
> icons.
>
> My only solution was to disable mouse interaction with my window.
>
> I raised this as a bug with Apple, bug number 3521992 on 5 January, 2004 -
> coming up to 5 years ago!
>
> Regards,
> Karl

Thanks for your reply, good to hear it's not just me, on the other
hand not so good because it obviously can't be done :)

Time to come up with an entirely different solution then.
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