Re: Pinning a Window to a Window
Re: Pinning a Window to a Window
- Subject: Re: Pinning a Window to a Window
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:17:00 +0200
On 22 Apr 2016, at 15:23, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any way of “pinning” one of my App’s windows so it is always in front of a window owned by another application? I’m using a Floating Window style at the moment, which works ok, but the window floats in fronts of everything. I’d like my window to always be just in front of the target window. Is this possible?
Not really. That said, there are numerous answers depending on your concrete circumstances, like:
- Who owns the other application (are you developer of both, or are they willing to help, or do they offer plugin mechanisms), or is it maybe a particular application (e.g. Finder keeps the desktop background in a separate window from the one holding the icons, so you can sneak a window in between, and also offers Finder Sync extension API).
- What your window does. (Sometimes it looks like you need your own UI, when really just using a Service that adds a contextual menu item can get your functionality in the other app and make it look built-in to the user)
- Whether you want in the app store. If not, you could theoretically inject your own code into another app and then add your own views or windows (but this has a lot of potential to break the other app, so isn't very popular and very hard to get right)
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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