Re: Floating window on top of everything
Re: Floating window on top of everything
- Subject: Re: Floating window on top of everything
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:49:48 -0700
- Thread-topic: Floating window on top of everything
On or about 4/8/09 11:25 PM, thus spake "Andrew Farmer" <email@hidden>:
> On 08 Apr 09, at 08:03, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:37:05 -0400, Walker Argendeli
>> <email@hidden> said:
>>> I am making a simple application that consists of a small HUD window
>>> that needs to float above another application. How do I make it so
>>> that A. it floats above everything, and B. when I switch to another
>>> application, it remains on top.
>>
>> Search the archives for example code showing how your app can be
>> notified
>> when an app switch occurs... m.
>
> This isn't necessary, actually. Setting the window's level to
> NSFloatingWindowLevel or so, and setting it to not hide on deactivate,
> should be sufficient to make it stay above everything.
Really? He wants the HUD window to float above a certain *particular*
application different from his own and vanish when any other application
is frontmost. What, in your proposed architecture, would make it do that? m.
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